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Re:My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along by gjsman-1000 on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:31PM (#34469472)
The classic issue with censorship. "I don't enjoy it, therefore, nobody should be allowed to enjoy it. And I won't be happy until nobody else can enjoy it. If you enjoy it, that makes you <insert moral judgement here>. And because I am not that, and nobody who is <insert moral judgement here> is for that content, it should be removed."

Now... I will admit, it isn't always wrong (CP). But it often is the fruit of an unwitting narcissism.

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Re:My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along by pcthrowaway on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:38PM (#34469551)
The person you're engaging with wasn't making an argument about whether it should be censored, just that the pulled episode was clearly anti-trans
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Re:My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along by mdp2021 on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:52PM (#34469676)
There is also a possibility that the poster subtly willingly replaced 'anti-' with "[all that in actual evidence from this side appears is that apparently,] you don't enjoy it", and on that basis returned to (an argument about) the original point of censorship.
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