With the concentration of economic and political power and the integration of opposites in a society which uses technology as an instrument of domination, effective dissent is blocked where it could freely emerge; in the formation of opinion, in information and communication, in speech and assembly. Under the rule of monopolistic media - themselves the mere instruments of economic and political power - a mentality is created for which right and wrong, true and false are predefined wherever they affect the vital interests of the society.

Herbert Marcuse (Jewish philsopher) “Repressive Tolerance”, 1969 (Marcuse was one of the first members of the Frankfurt School. “Repressive Tolerance” is the theoretical foundation of today’s cancel culture)