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> It sounds like you're advocating for pushing censorship responsibility to the user. It is really irresponsible to be phrasing censorship as a "responsibility
by tomc1985 5y ago
> It sounds like you're advocating for pushing censorship responsibility to the user.
It is really irresponsible to be phrasing censorship as a "responsibility". Censorship is a tool of the weak and simple-minded so that they can maintain the illusions of a shared reality promulgated by whoever is in charge. The only responsibility should be towards the free and unadulterated flow of information, and yes, it is the individual's responsibility to make sense of that in a civilized fashion.
My only exception to this rule is for things that are irrelevant to seeker's intent to acquire more information, advertising falls into this bucket.
- santoshalper 5y ago"My only exception is things I don't like" How is blocking spam and advertisement materially different than blocking a foreign actor's propaganda?
- tomc1985 5y agoThat is an extremely uncharitable reading of my words
- Clubber 5y agoBlocking spam is done by the consumer of information, blocking a foreign (and domestic) actor's propaganda is done by the entity with the power of dissemination of information. You don't see Google censoring ads much.
- rdw 5y agoGoogle spends most of their time blocking ads. "Spam" is ads.
- tomnipotent 5y ago> You don't see Google censoring ads much. There's nothing in their business they censor more.
- Clubber 5y agoIn search results?