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What's wrong with saying that it's censoring every candidate?
by pocksuppet 2mo ago
What's wrong with saying that it's censoring every candidate?
- matheusmoreira 2mo agoCensorship targets subversion. Censors seek to prevent the spread of antiestablishment information and ideas. So one can hardly claim that a universal ban on algorithmic recommendation for all candidates is censorship.
- pocksuppet 2mo agoCensorship doesn't have to "target subversion" or "prevent the spread of antiestablishment information" to be censorship.
- matheusmoreira 2mo agoEven if we use an all-encompassing definition of censorship, this still doesn't quite qualify. It's just preventing the recommendation algorithms from working on the politician accounts. The accounts themselves were not censored.