I think what is really troubling now, is the "Cancel Culture". The problem is that a person can be "tried" by a kangaroo court, and then punished (so far not using the death penalty) and the authorities do nothing to stop this.
There was one particular example of this that really shocked me. A British biochemist and Nobel Prizewinner gave a short talk - possible an after dinner speech with wine - in which he explained how hard he found it to deal fairly with women in his lab, because he found he "started to fall in love with them" and then found it hard to criticise their work. This was obviously a rather gauche joke. Someone recorded this speech and it was played on the BBC news as the first item. Almost immediately he was thrown out of his Emeritus professorshup at University College London, hounded by the BBC and social media.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/13/tim-hunt-hung-out-to-dry-interview-mary-collins
This kind of action has become all too common, and represents an atrocious societal change.
A related activity is the tendency to censor people if they say something uncomfortable.
An excellent recent example (reported by K9) of this was an article that Michael Shellenberger wrote in Forbes Magazine. This is a man who spent many years at the forefront of the Climate Change environmental movement, but had come to realise that the dangers were greatly exaggerated and likely to cause far more harm than good.
Within a few days, this article was removed. If a lifelong climate activist scientist can't change his mind, and needs censoring, where the hell ar we headed?
Davod