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"Censorship by Glut" is a very bad equivocation. It compares censorship (by force) to not being heard (no force used). It takes a word that means force, and ap
by xenophanes 18y ago
"Censorship by Glut" is a very bad equivocation.
It compares censorship (by force) to not being heard (no force used). It takes a word that means force, and applies it to a situation with no force.
- Donald 18y agoThe victims of both "soft" and "hard" censorship suffer a similar loss of voice and power. One of the author's implied points is that "Censorship by Glut" has the same societal effect as "Censorship by Edict."
- xenophanes 18y agoForce and freedom have different societal effects!
- diN0bot 18y agoplease explain.
- xenophanes 18y agoe.g. compare censorship via china's internet firewall thing to "censorship" by America's total lack of internet firewall thing. isn't it pretty obvious the resulting internet communities are different?