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The concept of "cancel culture" is a perverted, unfortunate mess, but fortunately you don't need it to say that what DeSantis is doing is wrong.
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You don't, and maybe he'd have done it anyway. But one would think an effort to censor at such a granular level - intended to actually censor, as opposed to scoring political points - would be done quietly, hidden to avoid public scrutiny.
But that's not what happened here. Here it was announced to the public. Why? To score political points in the new "You cancel me; I cancel you" game that is American politics.
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The big, stupid idea in your post is your attempt to tie that kind of censorship to Yglesias getting a Substack, and your "I told you so" that if only more people had shouted down that transsexual journalist at Vox, the Governor of Florida wouldn't be trying his hand at full-on censorship.
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Um, no. This is a discrete point. Here I'm simply saying what I anticipated would happen happened. And that thing is not the mere effort at censorship. In fact, by publicizing this, DeSantis is inviting a challenge that may result in a court ruling he cannot engage in such censorship. But he doesn't care. That's not what he wants. What he wants is the public notoriety for having joined the "cancel war" with the biggest cannon of all: State Enforced Censorship.
The Biden wing of the party is throwing so much cash around they should be able to hold the House in 2022. But the social justice/cancel-everybody-who-triggers-you wing is like a termite farm eating the planking of what Biden is trying to build. If the Dems lose the House in 2022, you can blame a culture war their crazy left wing decided to ramp up against an enemy far more skilled in that sort of warfare, and utterly nihilistic.
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