How can we have a debate if everyone is deplatformed?

BRENDA Power (Mail) refers to the latest ‘taboo’, and states that ‘if you don’t possess the “right” opinion, in the course of a process laughably described as a “debate”, you will be bullied out of the room’, as happened to Independent senator Sharon Keogan when she spoke on surrogacy.

Yes it is laughable, too, that debate is even mentioned regarding discussion on the issue of abortion, when it was most definitely absent in the run-up to the referendum on the Eighth Amendment. There has been silence in the media and by politicians on the promised three-year review of abortion legislation.

Brenda Power’s article is most welcome in acknowledging the groupthink now prevalent in our society and the price paid by anyone who ventures to question it. MARY STEWART,

Donegal town.

... PEOPLE of all political persuasions need to put their differences aside and unite to end the exorbitant censorship in today’s society. It seems you can’t say anything without being banned, censored, deplatformed, or cancelled, or accused of misinformation, false news, or any of the other rubbish.

How can we even debate if we can’t state our opinions?

What remains in the open are solely the official mainstream narratives for everything.

We’re told to follow science, for example, but questioning science or perceived reality is how science is practised. Once we attain the political condition of free speech then we can argue anew over flags, and marches, and street names.

But please remember that as we fuss over these inconsequentialities, the world around us is being transformed and revolutionised.

Blockchain technology, central bank digital currency, armed drones over OUR skies and microchip implants that let you pay with your hand are all coming without public consent. Remember this the next time you get bogged down in tribal nonsense.

LOUIS SHAWCROSS, Hillsborough, Co. Down.