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> Censorship is not the solution LOL. You posted this to a moderated forum. > I experienced the Wild West of the internet I was on USENET in the early 90s, a
by subsection1h 4y ago
> Censorship is not the solution
LOL. You posted this to a moderated forum.
> I experienced the Wild West of the internet
I was on USENET in the early 90s, and newsgroups like comp.lang.c.moderated were created for a reason. Unmoderated forums end up as cesspools.
- akomtu 4y agoCensorship and moderation are very different things. Moderation is more about format than content: too frequent posting, adding hyperlinks to irrelevant sites, intentionally poor formatting (all capslock) and so on. And moderators are usually public figures, because the rules are simple and widely supported. Censorship is "wrongthink moderation": censors dont care about format of the message, but care about the thought behind it. Censors are usually anon figures and the rules are usually unpopular and secret for this reason.