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This is amazing, instead of censorship being something the state does, you've talked yourself around to a position where the state can't possibly do censorship.
by mcphage 4y ago
This is amazing, instead of censorship being something the state does, you've talked yourself around to a position where the state can't possibly do censorship.
- Dalewyn 4y agoCensorship is when a third-party to communications comes in and dictates what communiques may be exchanged by the other parties. Such as a government coming in and regulating speech, or a communication medium coming in and regulating what can be exchanged upon its infrastructure. This chain of events isn't censorship because the people defunding the library are quite literally the people the library serves. There is no third-party. The very people the library serves decided, democratically in a free and fair election, the library was not worth continued funding. This is akin to someone blocking another person on a communication medium because they don't like them, which is within their rights. I'm just as against censorship as any other free speech advocate you can find, but calling this an infringement of free speech is disingenuous at best. The library is still free to collect and exhibit whatever books it wants; it just can't bill the people it serves, the taxpayers, for those books anymore.