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The precedence this sets is so scary and shortsighted. So a gay man ( or even a straight person ) in saudi arabia wanting to find out more about homosexuality
by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
The precedence this sets is so scary and shortsighted.
So a gay man ( or even a straight person ) in saudi arabia wanting to find out more about homosexuality will be directed to anti-gay playlist which tells them how evil gays are?
In china, instead of blocking tiannamen square searches, they'll simply redirct it to showing what a great a idea it was?
What about religious countries? Will youtube simply redirect searches for atheism to "anti-atheism" site?
This is the worst form of censorship as it is sneaky and exploitive. As a liberal ( possibly former liberal ), it is shocking to me that the liberals are the ones leading the call for censorship online, in academia and business. It reminds me of Animal Farm/1984. Now that liberals have used the protections free speech to gain a lot of power/mindshare, we are trying to use it to censor everything we find offensive.
Not only is this a horrific form of censorship, it removes any credibility we ever had of criticizing others for their censorship.
- hnbroseph 9y agogenerally, 'liberal' politicians in the us are the same corporate sell-outs that 'conservative' politicians are. they just work in a smidge of meaningless feel-good language in the rhetoric while doing largely nothing of consequence to actually help put food on the table. they glory in war and economic imperialism and servicing the oligarchy just as much as any.