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Oh TheQuartering I really enjoy how he pretends that only the "left" as he calls it wants censorship. His deletion of comments that provide examples of censors

• stcredzero 7y ago
  Oh TheQuartering I really enjoy how he pretends that only the "left" as he calls it wants censorship. I spent a lot of railing against censorship from the right. In recent years, there's a combination of many factors: Activists on the left who want to silence views they don't like, who also know people in tech and social media who have the power to enact it. So now most of the danger is from the left. The media power of networked viral distribution, plus monetization is so great, it's a game changer. It's in the same class of innovations as the printing press. (Both in the potential to democratize free thought and to control ideas.) In 2019, there should be a "right of discovery" in the same way our society acknowledges "freedom of the press." In 2019, the failure to acknowledge this new reality would mean that the public is ceding their ability to discover new information to gatekeepers enabled by mega-corporations. Indirectly through those mega corporations, the public is then ceding such power, to governments. (As is happening in China now.) It would be a kind of meta-censorship. It's not technically censorship, however it's actually more powerful.