It seems like you're desperately trying to find an equivalence between the current fascistic systems, and 'get woke, go broke' responses to tone-deaf entertainers (which is where the Dixie Chicks fell into).
I'm not "desperately trying" to do anything. I'm simply pointing out how, historically, the US demonstrated over and over how they can forget their founding principles
fast. In 1917-19 America became a Fascist state crystallised around the "Crusade in Europe". Should I also mention how people were arrested and interned because
they taught German in high-school?
At which point you missed how Oliver Wendell Holmes created a Supreme Court Precedent about how "The First Amendment Can Be Thrown Away In Any Moment For... Reasons"?
There was no government backlash on the Chicks. Hell, there wasn't much of a corporate one either. They just decided to take a spectacularly unpopular political stance, and their audience walked off.
And at which point you missed
"The mass pro-war hysteria in 2003 didn't even need laws."? The Dixie Chicks also happened to be right - because you didn't need a genius to see how the US were about to make one of the most serious mistakes in their history, the Dixie Chicks were enough. Yet, they remained cancelled. They never recovered.
How many people, today, say sane, basic things and are cancelled for that thanks to the current climate of mass hysteria? (Which is everywhere, BTW: RPGs? Hysteria. Masks? Hysteria. Politics? Hysteria. Pop culture? Hysteria...) How many of them remain cancelled after being proven right? (answer: almost all of them) Are you
seriously defending this state of things?
Meanwhile, we get things like Operation Chokepoint.
Meanwhile, you
also get things like Operation Chokepoint.