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I strongly dispute that censor evokes gulags. A person of ordinary education would understand the Hollywood Blacklists of the 50's as censorship. It's a quinte
by rhino369 6y ago
I strongly dispute that censor evokes gulags.
A person of ordinary education would understand the Hollywood Blacklists of the 50's as censorship. It's a quintessential example of censorship.
To extent you want to redefine censorship as only government actions, there is a pretty plausible argument that elements of the US government pushed for this. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/19/angry-democrats-facebook-424456 https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/19/angry-democrats-fa...
It might not be a coincidence that Big Tech waited until Trumps defeat looked certain to finally start censoring his posts in Oct 2020. They were probably afraid of what a Democratic DOJ would do. Democrats have blamed Trump's win on big tech for years.
- acdha 6y agoOkay, go with that. Trump isn’t losing his job, house, or anything else because of what Twitter did. The only thing he’s using is free use of their infrastructure to advertise his speech — and he still has all of the news media, his campaign and personal websites and email, etc. so that’s really not much of an impediment.