When power swells, does dissent shrink?

The media landscape has become a digital colosseum where trolls drown out nuanced critique.

A well-meaning friend has sent an asocial media post—a term that suggests the amoral nature of such platforms—asking for my opinion. The text is cryptic and mentions no names, making it difficult to assess its context. Yet the message signals a worrying spiral of silence following the formation of an ostensibly ideology-free but essentially neocon government holding nearly two-thirds of seats in the newly elected Pratinidhi Sabha.