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That stretches the meaning of the word beyond anything useful though. Is it censorship if The NY Times doesn’t publish your letter to the editor? Is it censorsh
by amanaplanacanal 6y ago
That stretches the meaning of the word beyond anything useful though. Is it censorship if The NY Times doesn’t publish your letter to the editor? Is it censorship if I kick you out of my party when you get drunk and start yelling racist slurs? You could take a maximalist view and say yes, those are censorship, but I doubt you would find many people that would say you shouldn’t do those things.
- AnthonyMouse 6y agoCensorship is the suppression or prohibition of speech. If the NY Times doesn't publish your letter to the editor but you can post it on Facebook and have a reasonably proportionate number of people able to read it in practice, it's not being effectively suppressed. If neither they nor anyone else with a similar reach will carry it, that's censorship. It has nothing to do with who does it and everything to do with whether the idea is being suppressed in practice.
- djrogers 6y ago> That stretches the meaning of the word beyond anything useful though. No - it’s literally the definition of the word censorship: “suppression or prohibition of speech”. It really sounds like you’re trying hard to redefine the word to mean what you want to say, but maybe you should just pick a different word?
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoIf that's the definition you want to use, I doubt you could find anybody that is seriously against all censorship. Then it just comes back to where you want to draw the lines.
- rhizome 6y agoWhere do you draw the line between censorship (as you define it) and editorial policy?
- djrogers 6y agoThis isn’t my definition, it’s the literal dictionary definition.