Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ...
by int_19h on Monday March 01, 2021 @07:46PM
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> When a supermajority of voters decide to make a new law, that's democracy, and it's a good thing.
Is it, really? Even if the new law is extremely oppressive to the minority?
I mean, our drug laws are a mess that caused extreme grief (prison etc) to millions of people by now. But they were supported by wide majorities of the electorate. Were they a good thing? How about the Prohibition? Sodomy laws?
Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ...
by jimbokun on Monday March 01, 2021 @07:03PM
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It’s generally a very small, unrepresentative number of people on Twitter responsible for canceling someone.
Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ...
by hannasanarion on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @11:51AM
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If that were true, why do you care?
If it's a small unrepresentative number of people who dislike a person, group, or thing, why would anybody care?
When 1 person decides to make a new law, that's autocracy, and it's a bad thing. When a supermajority of voters decide to make a new law, that's democracy, and it's a good thing.
When a couple dozen editors, CEOs, and DJs decided to end the Dixie Chicks' careers by banning them from access to all channels of outreach to the public, that was a bad thing and also censorship.
When tens of millions of people decided they don't want to go to Louis CK's shows anymore and he's finding it hard to find an audience as a result, there's nothing wrong with that. Lots of people independently deciding that they don't like you is not censorship.