That’s precisely the point. Just because those things (which you associate with ”censorship”) are not being done, you are comfortable. But what is happening is

That’s precisely the point. Just because those things (which you associate with ”censorship”) are not being done, you are comfortable. But what is happening is happening and it’s just a matter of whether you agree or not, it’s how you build your own understanding and perspective of the world. Not everything needs to be all-in. Do you agree with art being instrumentalized and turned into something that can be ”retouched for the greater good” by the hands of people who couldn’t possibly publish a single successful blog post? Would you let HN mods retouch your comment if they found something offensive in it (for whatever spurious criteria happened to be trendy at any given time)? Those are all questions you should ask yourself. I live in a country where the children’s lullabies have been butchered and changed into bland, uninteresting versions of the originals, which were amazing records of cultural heritage. That heritage has been denied to my children (I try to sing the original ones but the school uses the new versions and so they don’t want to hear mine). They also use gender neutral pronouns and forbid us to take pictures in events but that’s a topic for another time.