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Your argument/trope fails for a simple reasons: "They" don't exist. * Here on HN we censor each other. * The US censors basic nudity. * Germany censors denyi
by Pyramus 6y ago
Your argument/trope fails for a simple reasons: "They" don't exist.
* Here on HN we censor each other.
* The US censors basic nudity.
* Germany censors denying the Holocaust.
* The patent office censors inventions.
* Scientists have devised a peer-censorship system.
* The police censors your attempts to distribute illegal material.
* Banks censor your funds to ISIS.
... the list goes on and on and on.
- wnoise 6y agoAlmost half of those are indeed bad guys, and much of the rest does not fit under the normal meaning of the word censorship.