Certain sorts of events, none of which directly involve government action, are what we often think of when contemporary notions of freedom of speech, political correctness, and cancel culture come up in conversation: A speaker is disinvited from a college campus after some of their political views are unearthed, a tweet is deleted by X (formerly Twitter) because it is labeled as hateful, a scientific paper is retracted after people express that it has upset them, an outspoken actor is fired from a television series for controversial opinions, a publisher responds to a petition by canceling the release of a forthcoming book, a magazine disavows its own article about a hot-button topic after pressure from its staff.
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