Re:A Warning from the Unpublished Preface to Orwell’s Animal...
by barbariangrunge on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @05:33PM
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If you call it censorship, hn is against it. But if you call it free speech, in an act of doublespeak, hn is loudly against that for the last year or so
Re:A Warning from the Unpublished Preface to Orwell’s Animal...
by coffeeisyummy on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @09:24PM
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The waters get muddy when the government asks companies to censor on its behalf, as we've seen with social media in the past.
Moveover, a couple of years of go, it was a good thing "dangerous" ideas were censored, in the name of the greater good. Certain elections and viruses come to mind.
Re:A Warning from the Unpublished Preface to Orwell’s Animal...
by iraqmtpizza on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @09:32PM
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HN literally gave no fucks about the FBI threatening social media companies on a daily basis with a Section 230 repeal and anti-trust action if they didn't censor specific accounts. Zuckerberg called the federal government an existential threat to the company.
https://www.racket.news/p/f-bomb-this-the-biden-administrati...
It gets more confusing when you talk about a company censoring (as opposed to a government). HN gets schizophrenic here. Companies should not be forced to carry content they don't want to carry, but companies shouldn't be able to censor people because of company ideology or politics or whatever. HN is very conflicted on this issue.
But I don't think it's fair to be surprised that HN is not in favor of censorship, even the closed-minded groupthink self-censorship that Orwell was dealing with.