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Censorship folks always claim their censorship won't target innocents and that it will make things better. Every single time it's attempted, it fails.
by incomingpain 2y ago
Censorship folks always claim their censorship won't target innocents and that it will make things better.
Every single time it's attempted, it fails.
- Spivak 2y agoWho claims that? I explicitly want censorship to target innocents. There is no single person's speech (even my own) that we can't live without. I would much rather the banhammer come down a few feet over the fence so that people can't get too close to it. I say this as someone who both wields and has been hit with the banhammer. You store your hammer in the freezer specifically for the chilling effect. Strong moderation in communities does make those communities better. We're in one of them. Your workplace is likely one of them. Your social sphere is one too hand curated by you. IRL we call this social norms and boundaries, but when it's online or in print people get weird about it.
- faeriechangling 2y agoCensorship works great. That’s why we’ve been doing it for so long. It’s just that censorship is good for the censors not for the censored or the general population. Occasionally a censor will be benevolent and effective but one can’t count on such things.
- mcguire 2y ago...incomingpain writes, on one of the more heavily moderated of the current internet forums.