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I mean, you effectively run an authoritarian site where you and only you get an opinion. And that's fine. It is your platform. I had a similar discussion with
by bena 8y ago
I mean, you effectively run an authoritarian site where you and only you get an opinion.
And that's fine. It is your platform.
I had a similar discussion with someone else. We see censorship in general as something wrong. So only bad actors do it. Good people, like you and me, don't do bad things. So we don't censor. So whatever we do can't be censoring, because only bad people censor.
What if censorship isn't always bad? For instance, you censor all opinions not your own on your site. You have established it as the one stop shop for iotku's opinion on things iotku wishes to opine on. Since I do not have iotku's opinions, I can't really elaborate on them. I can't explain why iotku thought x or y. So my voice is pointless in that realm.
Although the question of how much of a responsibility these sites have to hold to the purest ideals of freedom of speech isn't a bad one. I personally believe that they can make that determination themselves and it is not my place to insist on a certain standard.