Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content
by Ragnarork on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @02:52PM
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Private sector censorship is not a concept. These terms are mutually exclusive by definition.
Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content
by 99052882514569 on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:11PM
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Please don't dress up your very much arguable opinions and arbitrary definitions of common language as some sort of fact. Your efforts to single-handedly redefine what censorship means are probably better spent making major changes to the wiki article on censorship[1], since it mentions explicitly governments and private organizations may engage in censorship in the first two paragraphs. Or perhaps writing letters to the EFF[2] demanding they take down their articles on private censorship.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/private-censorship-not...
In this context, that's simply a neologism for private-sector censorship. Again I want to reiterate that I don't think the private sector should be prohibited from censorship. But using euphemisms like "deplatforming" distracts us from the fact that it is private-sector censorship, and from drawing our conclusions about these platforms, how widely representative they are, and how safe our own speech is on those platforms from future "deplatforming". Thankfully I'm not anti-immigrant, pro-theocracy, anti-abortion, communist, don't hold views like 'homosexuality and transsexuality are not genetic', etc. But if I were, I'd be worried.