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This is an incredible false equivalence. Your comment here would have been censored in China.
by ahzhou 3y ago
This is an incredible false equivalence. Your comment here would have been censored in China.
- rosmax_1337 3y agoThe current motto of the western censors is that freedom of speech does not mean freedom of reach. Allow people to speak, but keep their words from reaching any other significant part of the population. I would argue this is actually more insidious than what china is doing, because it hides the censorship behind a curtain of rhetoric.
- jodleif 3y agoWestern censors?
- rosmax_1337 3y agoI'm talking about the moderation teams of various major social media platforms, like youtube, facebook, twitter, etc, and the NGOs which train and set the tone for these.
- jodleif 3y agoWhich are worse than government censorship? How?
- rosmax_1337 3y ago>it hides the censorship behind a curtain of rhetoric.
- jodleif 3y agoI see. Seems worse than jail
- stonogo 3y agoWhat exactly is the alternative? Compelling private entities to broadcast other people's speech? This is a bizarre position. Choosing not to amplify a specific worldview is not censorship and no amount of mental gymnastics will make it so. You cannot hide censorship with rhetoric. At the end of the day, actual censorship is backed with state violence.