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Censorship often comes from different sides of the political spectrum. In the USA, sexual censorship comes from mostly the right, but increasing from the left a
by rhino369 10y ago
Censorship often comes from different sides of the political spectrum. In the USA, sexual censorship comes from mostly the right, but increasing from the left as well--exploiting women, perpetuating rape culture, etc.
Violence censorship often comes from the left. Democrats used to lead the way on banning violent video games, etc.
"Hate speech" censorship comes from the left too.
Whoever is in power tends to seek to bad seditious speech.
And the right usually wants to censor blasphemous speech.
It's a mixed bag.
- tehwalrus 10y agoSee, Liberalism is nothing to do with left and right, which is economics. The "left" (i.e. centre-right) in the USA are not Liberals by British or European standards (which are different), although they are often referred to as such. You may have already seen the political compass[1], which shows a 2D view of political theory (which is still too small a dimensionality, but illustrates the point about considering more than just left/right.) In the UK, Liberal Democrats are often advocates of the political compass approach, as a defence against the stereotype that we "sit on the fence" between the two largest parties. [1] https://www.politicalcompass.org/ https://www.politicalcompass.org/