Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring out of 'fear'

Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by echelon on Monday March 01, 2021 @05:59PM (#26309679)

Before Twitter, I never saw headlines like "X actor under fire for previously dating Y actor". Clicking on such trends, you find the Twitterverse raging and debating totally invented controversies.

People are becoming offended by everything now.

They're being suggested reasons to be offended, and many seem to adopt that stance.

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of this is being stoked by robots. Perhaps corporate or state actors.

What if "being offended" is a mind virus that spreads easily through the power of suggestion?

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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by vmladenov on Monday March 01, 2021 @06:28PM (#26309954)

The media landscape is more diverse now. In the past, television stations would regularly censor material in order to avoid getting “cancelled” by the Christian right.[1] Cancel culture is just a new word for an age-old illiberal phenomenon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Baptist_Convention_co...

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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by president on Monday March 01, 2021 @07:58PM (#26310611)

> I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of this is being stoked by robots. Perhaps corporate or state actors.

I have always believed that a platform should verify identities and have a zero-tolerance for bots if we (as a society) are to trust any information coming from that platform. This is not to say that platforms that don't do these things should not exist but that we should not take them as seriously as we do today. Unfortunately, this completely goes against the business model of many of these social media companies.

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