Re:Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse
by reginold on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @03:16AM
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Thanks for saying this with examples. People sure seem to be afraid of their own thoughts if they feel the need to limit speech of others. Must be a hard way to live. And certainly makes life hard for your examples.
Re:Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse
by DoctorOW on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @11:51AM
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These are all from big corporate entities either making (admittedly terrible) mistakes, or using the precedent of those mistakes to hide. These are problems systemically fixed by having human moderators not dependent on ad revenue.
> One only get to understand what censorship feels like when it comes for them.
This looks like you were starting to write "First they came for the" and then realized the next word was "socialists".
Re:Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse
by busymom0 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:30PM
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They already are coming for anti establishment socialists- Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald etc for example. Anti establishment Tulsi Gabbard got her ad campaign censored too. Right now it just happens to be the case that majority of the censorship is happening on the right but that’s not to mean that anti establishment voices on the left aren’t getting censored.
That's such a naive and ignorant viewpoint. Everything which one doesn't agree with suddenly doesn't become racist, xenophobic, and homophobic content.
Post from an hour ago:
> Somali feminist: Facebook is being used to silence me
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28452991
Another one from 2 months ago:
> The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27645282
From yesterday:
> The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28443244
Facebook and IG also banned the mother of one of the soldiers who died in Afghanistan last week.
Even women who are against biological men competing in their sports are getting silenced under the label of "transphobia."
One only get to understand what censorship feels like when it comes for them.