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Censorship is censorship.

• no-name-here 5mo ago
  Is it? Would bioweapon instruction restrictions be equivalent to disallowing reporting on whether the government is massacring large numbers of citizens in your city? Both are ‘censorship’ but don’t seem remotely equivalent to me.
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  • ryandrake 5mo ago
    That’s the thing about principled positions. If you believe censorship is wrong, then it is equally wrong no matter what the topic is.
    • no-name-here 5mo ago
      >> Would bioweapon instruction restrictions be equivalent to disallowing reporting on whether the government is massacring large numbers of citizens in your city? > If you believe censorship is wrong, then it is equally wrong no matter what the topic is. Are you agreeing with that view, or merely saying it’s a theoretical view but you think such believers are wrong?
    • no-name-here 5mo ago
      Do you believe it’s only censorship where context shouldn’t be applied? Like if someone had a principled view "violence is wrong", would non-lethal violence in a clear case of self-defense be “equally wrong” as the guy who personally killed tens of thousands of captured POWs (Blokhin)? As “violence is violence”?
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