Re:Gatekeepers or Censors? How Tech Manages Online Speech
by grandmczeb on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @12:02PM
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Censorship is not defined as illegal speech. Some forms of censorship are perfectly ok, like when you remove objectionable content from your own platform. If the government were to require you to remove that same content, it would still be censorship, but in a much worse form.
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Re:Gatekeepers or Censors? How Tech Manages Online Speech
by lordCarbonFiber on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @12:10PM
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No, that's the point. Censorship is a specific thing, and to muddy the waters by claiming moderation is censorship means that during times of actual governmental overreach it will be that much harder to recruit people to your cause.
It's fairly easy to get people onboard with the idea of moderation, once you insist that that's censorship you now have a population that's "ok with censorship" which is exactly what the fascists trying to make the equality want.
Re:Gatekeepers or Censors? How Tech Manages Online Speech
by notveryrational on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @03:43PM
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No person is claiming that "moderation is censorship".
Merely, this specific act of moderation was an implementation of censorship.
Moderation and censorship are two different things that are not mutually exclusive.