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Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by Andrew_nenakhov on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @04:53AM (#37319266)
Moderation and censorship are two very different things.

Also, trusting the government is silly. It has a lot of opportunities to call any speech harmful to state policies as 'hate speech', 'misinformation', etc. - and before long you could find your country turned into a authoritarian failed state like Russia.

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Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu... by vintermann on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @06:27AM (#37319836)
Right. To make it explicit: Moderation is when you take down material because the recipient doesn't want to see it.

Censorship is when you take down content because you don't want the recipient to see it, regardless of how the recipient feels about it.

If people think censorship is sometimes justified, they should argue that, and not muddle the picture with moderation.

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