I don’t mean to get too caught up on the war analogy, but more the Game Theory. Sometimes people settle on a suboptimal outcome for fear of a worse one, when if they cooperated, they would get a far better one. 

The fact is if everyone who believed trans women playing women’s sports is a joke, said so loudly and under their real names, that shit never would have gotten started. I use this as a trivial example. 

But no one wanted to speak up because they could get cancelled, so we have this absurdities which we permit. 

We empower the tyrant by fearing him and validate the censor by not exercising our rights to free speech, consequences be damned. 

Encryption is for private messages. I’m talking about ideas you want to see proliferate in the public square.