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Censorship - noun the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to
by dumbfounder 6y ago
Censorship - noun
the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.
It is censorship. But not all censorship is bad.
- ekianjo 6y ago> But not all censorship is bad. pretty much all dictators agree with you on that.
- dumbfounder 6y agoBut not child porn purveyors.
- newguy1234 6y agoI know if I was a dictator, I would definitely agree with it!
- greatgirl 6y agoPretty much all dictators breath, too.
- bun_at_work 6y agoYeah this is a valid point here. If you think it should be illegal to yell "fire" in a crowded theater, you're a dictator. If you think it should be illegal to create/sell/distribute child porn, you're a dictator. Nice false equivalence. The US is divided right now because of bad faith arguments like this.
- ekianjo 6y agoInteresting how you cherry picked political speech out.
- tatrajim 6y agoThat's what I saw daily under military dictatorship in South Korea in the 1970s and 80s. My Time magazine would arrive with gaping holes where pages had been cut out. These days the scissors in the US are virtual, but the goal is the same: suppression of political speech and news deemed heretical to one's ideological viewpoint. If you approve of censorship. try China, all the public rhetoric is very clean and faultlessly progressive.
- dumbfounder 6y agoI think companies should have the right to censor their products in very specific situations, but they should be grilled like they are when it happens so we can debate it with transparency. I am not condoning governments to censor, I think you are reading way too much into my comment.
- tatrajim 6y agoThe compliant Korean media companies under the military then and the Chinese ones like TenCent now craft their censorship to the ideological winds of the state. Silicon Valley under Biden will likely exactly mirror state ideology and indeed participate in its making. We're seeing before our eyes the creation of a one-party discourse system, where unapproved ideas will be extirpated from public forums as "hate speech".
- dumbfounder 6y agoIt appears that people are downvoting me... to censor me? How ironic.