[quote nauticant]As others have said, fascinating and ironic in equal measure. Heading down a number of rabbit holes and I found this interesting opinion piece:
The intellectuals were succeeded by the activists. Early Internet Argument Culture disappeared and was replaced by something more familiar.
The atheists of Early Internet Argument Culture were not New Atheists. The term “New Atheism” didn’t really catch on until about 2006 when Richard Dawkins published The God Delusion; Early Internet Argument Culture was just a prelude to the main event. Post-2006 atheists were brasher and more political. They were less interested in arguing with religious people about the minutiae of carbon-dating; they were more interested in posting about how stupid carbon-dating denalists were, on their own social media feeds, read entirely by other atheists. The concept of the Internet as magical place where you could change other people’s minds had given way to the Internet as magical place where you could complain to like-minded friends about how ignorant other people were.
slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godlessness-that-failed/[/quote]
Thank you for that link @nauticant!
This has helped me crystallise why I’ve gone cold on some atheist thinkers/bloggers/podcasters I previously liked. I see what’s happened now. Penny drops 
“There was nothing to delete” ahahahahahahahahahah 😂
Why do people whose foundational beliefs are supposed to be about reason and liberal principles keep acting so illiberally and refusing to engage in a process of reasoning??