Re:Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes
by tbrownaw on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @08:47PM
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Censorship is not solely its most extreme form. Getting banned from your favorite baseball forum because you keep talking about hockey does in fact count, even if it's relatively minor and most people would even agree with it.
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Re:Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes
by ajross on Thursday August 17, 2023 @10:24AM
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> Getting banned from your favorite baseball forum because you keep talking about hockey does in fact count, even if it's relatively minor and most people would even agree with it.
Fine. But then what word do you use for repressive coercion of speech by governments? I'm no linguistic purist. I get that words change their meanings over time.
What I was complaining about were people (1) using the word to imply terrible behavior on the part of some imagined enemy while (2) citing irrelevant nonsense evidence, as in your example. That's not a semantic argument, that's just lying.