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> This is the road to censorship I think it's dangerous to conflate government sanctioned censorship with moderation on a privately owned website.
by hhmc 9y ago
> This is the road to censorship
I think it's dangerous to conflate government sanctioned censorship with moderation on a privately owned website.
- dsfyu404ed 9y agoThere's a pretty direct parallel between local mods and a local government official when the online community and local government are semi-democratically run. If you're constantly posting threads highlighting successes of the market in /r/communism you will quickly find yourself kicked out of there. If you are constantly writing letters to the editor about conflicts of interest and unethical dealings in local government then local government will screw you at every turn until you leave town. In places where local governments have little control over people (e.g. the middle of nowhere Montana) there isn't much of a parallel. In places where you need a building permit for a garden shed you had better not "piss off the mods".