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Re:Twitter takeover battle: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey turn u... by tablespoon on Monday April 18, 2022 @09:48AM (#31070499)
> But it is censorship. Moderation is not censorship. A moderator in a debate does not censor, he directs conversation....

> Censorship is simply preventing people from saying what they would like to say.

You're contradicting yourself. What if someone wants to disrupt the conversation? Depending on the audience and venue, disruption can take many forms.

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Re:Twitter takeover battle: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey turn u... by SkyBelow on Monday April 18, 2022 @03:36PM (#31075387)
A moderator would have the power to censor as some sort of final option when other moderation techniques failed. Generally we don't have instances where the moderator needs to use it.

So a moderator moderates, and extreme cases of moderation may censor. But there is still a distinction between censorship and moderation even if there are situations where one involves the other.

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Re:Twitter takeover battle: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey turn u... by dec0dedab0de on Monday April 18, 2022 @01:45PM (#31074026)
Then you should probably suppress or delete the objectionable disruption or the person causing said disruption.
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