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Censorship means state power is deployed to silence speech Since when? You're attempting to give default context to a word that has none. Somehow, api, I dou
by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Censorship means state power is deployed to silence speech
Since when? You're attempting to give default context to a word that has none.
Somehow, api, I doubt that you'd be attempting that redefinition if Facebook, Twitter, etc. were silencing people and organizations of the Left.
- jakelazaroff 5y agoNo need for the hypothetical — that happens regularly, and people on the left criticize them for it. They just don't often describe it as "censorship". Also, to add a bit of context: the top performing posts on Facebook are almost exclusively far-right demagoguery. https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10 https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10
- myfavoritedog 5y agothat happens regularly It happens in a token way in infrequent and extreme circumstances. But there's nothing even remotely comparable to the fact that Donald Trump was banned from Facebook and Twitter, that numerous internet powers worked together to shut down Parler, that the NY Post was locked out of Twitter for reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop, etc. the top performing posts on Facebook are almost exclusively far-right demagoguery Popularity despite censorship just goes to show how the operators of Facebook are in a different narrative bubble than a sizable portion of their users. The notion that Ben Shapiro is far-right is just demagoguery of your own. Shapiro is a pretty benign and centrist-sympathetic conservative.
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