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Google is essentially blocking content that is deemed inappropriate under some standard, so therefore it is censorship. A fun exercise: what else would count a
by hugh3 16y ago
Google is essentially blocking content that is deemed inappropriate under some standard, so therefore it is censorship.
A fun exercise: what else would count as censorship under this rather expanded definition? For instance, if I run a bookstore then am I "censoring" every book I don't carry?
- j_baker 16y agoAre you not carrying those books because you deem them inappropriate or because you simply don't have space for them all?
- hugh3 16y agoWhat if I'm not carrying them because I don't think they're good?
- anonymoushn 16y agoThat's fine. To me, only the widespread and self-promoted idea that your bookstore is a channel for absolutely any public discourse (in the form of books for sale) would make your decision not to carry a book an act of censorship. This is why it is censorship when Amazon does not carry The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure, but not when Borders does not carry it.
- j_baker 16y agoI don't know. What if you're not carrying them because you don't think they're good?