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>is already worse than state censorship was in the USSR It is not. It is absolutely inadequate comparison.
by ivan_gammel 2y ago
>is already worse than state censorship was in the USSR
It is not. It is absolutely inadequate comparison.
- exe34 2y agoWhat does censorship mean to you?
- ivan_gammel 2y agoCensorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. (Wikipedia)
- exe34 2y agoand which part do you think Facebook/twitter/etc don't take part in?
- ivan_gammel 2y agoWrong question. Of course they censor content. I did not say they don’t do it, I only pointed out that comparison to USSR is quite an exaggeration.
- exe34 2y agowhat evidence would convince you that the comparison is apt?
- ivan_gammel 2y agoI know that such evidence does not exist, but if it were, a detailed comparison based on it would deserve a scientific degree. Neither a single corporation nor entire big tech considered together as a single actor can really compare with the scale and diversity of censorship of a totalitarian state.
- exe34 2y agonow try all the corporations together.
- arsenico 2y agoOh, it absolutely is. Censorship in USSR was manual labor. The scale at which its is operating today is incomparable, as is the amount of false positives which it captures, as well as the variety of censored topics across different institutions.
- ivan_gammel 2y agoManual vs automatic is irrelevant here. There was much less content to moderate if we talk about media. They could censor every single publication, movie or song manually. In oppressive regimes like USSR the censorship is total - the only escape is your kitchen (if you can really trust the people you talk to), in the West you are free to choose the platform and live peacefully in your bubble if you want.
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