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Re:Gatekeepers or Censors? How Tech Manages Online Speech by ratsmack on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @11:52AM (#17716925)
When a moderator removes one of your comments because they disagree with the content, that is censorship. When a moderator removes your comment because it breaks a well defined rule, then that is moderating.

Trying to moderate "hate speech", which is highly subjective, is a losing proposition.

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Re:Gatekeepers or Censors? How Tech Manages Online Speech by notveryrational on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @05:14PM (#17719549)
When well-defined rules include "content that the government wants to suppress because it criticized them" the rules provide censorship via moderation.

In this case, Facebook - presuming what they did was "follow the rules" - is following censorship rules.

So perhaps the thread should be about the US government forcing companies to censor free speech for them.

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