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> Censorship is based on content: if you can say "long live Communist Party" but can't say "long live Republican Party", that's censorship. Using that definiti
by pyrale 7y ago
> Censorship is based on content: if you can say "long live Communist Party" but can't say "long live Republican Party", that's censorship.
Using that definition, censoring all publications of a given group (say, black people) would not be censorship. That's a big hole in the definition.
- habnds 7y agodiscriminating on the basis of race is banned separately. This would probably be addressed by the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment, not free speech under the first.
- smsm42 7y ago> Using that definition, censoring all publications of a given group (say, black people) would not be censorship It's not censorship, it's discrimination. Bad thing, but different. If it was censored because these people write about specific racial issues, it'd be censorship. If it's blanket denial regardless of the content, it's racial discrimination, not censorship. It doesn't mean it's not bad - one could argue it's even worse since it doesn't leave you any chance - you could probably talk in another way to route around censorship but you can't stop being black - but it's not that issue, it's a different one.
- pyrale 7y agoImagine now that you ban all writings from communists, including their love stories. It is not racist, and according to the definition it is not censorship. This form of behaviour was used a lot in ancient regimes, and known as censorship. The definition you use seems to be a legal one rather than the usual one.