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It's the nature of censorship that people want to censor what other people see, not what they see themselves. We believe we're able to make our own decisions an
by lopmotr 7y ago
It's the nature of censorship that people want to censor what other people see, not what they see themselves. We believe we're able to make our own decisions and we're in control of our minds, but those other people who aren't us might not be and are in danger of bad influences.
- mandelbrotwurst 7y agoSpeak for yourself. People who support censorship, sure. "We"? No.
- lopmotr 7y agoBy "we", I mean most people, as evidenced by all democratic governments censoring various things, presumably because their voters want to prevent the rest of their country from seeing them. Same goes for restrictions on drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, etc. People who're concerned about their health won't be doing those things themselves and don't need a law to stop them, but they want to protect what they see as irresponsible other people. That might be a fair judgement but it's still a judgement about other people being somehow weaker and needing to be protected from themselves.