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The preface to Animal Farm is pretty interesting in how it paralells the current social media censorship with the censorship imposed by the English intelligents
by geomark 6y ago
The preface to Animal Farm is pretty interesting in how it paralells the current social media censorship with the censorship imposed by the English intelligentsia of Orwell's day.
- pstuart 6y agoIn the case of social media, there's a difference between censorship and blocking hate speech/incitement to violence. The former is about quelling ideas and latter is about fomenting violence against "others". Conflating the two is disingenuous at best. As for "ideas", look at what Fox News has done to political discourse in America and tell me that's a good thing. I'm against outright censorship but they really push the limits of "free speech". From my point of view, they engage in stochastic terrorism and do not engage in good faith.
- geomark 6y agoI'm not even talking about hate speech/incitement. I'm talking about the whole year's haggling over so-called fake news whenever there were opinions that did not match the official narrative. For example, if there was an opinion posted that contradicted the WHO or CDC on Covid then it was flagged, despite in some cases the obvious dissonance like the "masks don't work but they should be reserved for health workers" guideline.
- jamesrcole 6y agoYou can argue there is a distinction to be made, but you can’t argue that it isn’t a form of censorship.