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Re:“YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG by markdown on Sunday April 17, 2022 @03:48PM (#31063799)
If that isn't a rhetorical question... capitalism.
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Re:“YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG by kenoph on Sunday April 17, 2022 @05:07PM (#31064522)
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
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Re:“YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG by mpalczewski on Sunday April 17, 2022 @05:03PM (#31064495)
> capitalism

If capitalism caused censorship you would expect the least capitalist places to have the least censorship but the opposite is true.

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Re:“YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG by kenoph on Sunday April 17, 2022 @05:14PM (#31064586)
If capitalism causes censorship, that doesn't mean it's necessarily the worst at causing censorship.

Additionally, we don't live in a stationary society, so, whatever capitalism did or did not cause in the past might not apply as-is today.

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Re:“YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG by stjohnswarts on Sunday April 17, 2022 @06:17PM (#31065032)
Capitalism (as practiced by democracies) allows you to start an alternative site that doesn't censor results as well. Totalitarianism (Communism) would not have. Choose your poison from amongst the various governments that have succeeded (for a while) in the past as I don't think Utopia is a possibility with humans as messed up as we are.
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Re:“YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG by markdown on Monday April 18, 2022 @07:13AM (#31069311)
I'm not sure what your point is. The GP commenter asked what brought us here... it was capitalism. It was people starting other sites that didn't censor or didn't have ads or didn't do this or that. The winners of capitalism are what we have now.
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