Re:I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine
by int_19h on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @06:25PM
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> Some of these arguments for censorship made in this article sound eerily similar to how we justify censorship in the West.
The gist of any centralized top-down censorship is that some ideas are just too dangerous to allow them in public discourse. It can be dressed up in slightly different terms - "social harmony" or "threat to democracy" etc - but it's fundamentally about the same thing.
The gist of any centralized top-down censorship is that some ideas are just too dangerous to allow them in public discourse. It can be dressed up in slightly different terms - "social harmony" or "threat to democracy" etc - but it's fundamentally about the same thing.