Re:Internet Association Endorses Internet Censorship Bill
by sgift on Sunday November 05, 2017 @05:41AM
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In 1984 you had the Telescreen in every house. You were not allowed to cover it up and it was used to broadcast propaganda into peoples homes without any filtering (plus it was a surveillance device, but that's besides the point here).
Re:Internet Association Endorses Internet Censorship Bill
by nnfy on Sunday November 05, 2017 @05:54AM
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No, the point is that in 1984 you had doublespeak, where people used words in ways that were contradictory to their meaning[0] - in the way that the GP claims that prohibiting filtering is somehow a form of censorship, when censorship is literally a form of filtering.
This reads like a paragraph straight out of 1984. No one is forcing people to view anything by prohibiting filtering. It simply is making certain available on the platform.
Now I suppose one could argue that filtering is a form of speech, but thats still reaching I think.