EU opens proceedings against X over efforts to combat information manipulation

Re:EU opens proceedings against X over efforts to combat inf... by matchapples on Monday December 18, 2023 @10:01AM (#38683372)

He probably does mean that. An environment of censorship very quickly demands meta-censorship -- censoring discussion about the existence of censorship, otherwise you could circumvent the censorship of the particular topic by discussing the fact that it's being censored.

We saw this clearly demonstrated during covid -- discussion about covid censorship was also censored.

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Re:EU opens proceedings against X over efforts to combat inf... by alkonaut on Monday December 18, 2023 @10:11AM (#38683485)

> censoring discussion about the existence of censorship, otherwise you could circumvent the censorship of the particular topic by discussing the fact that it's being censored.

Can you elaborate what that would consist of here?`

> discussion about covid censorship was also censored.

Any examples?

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Re:EU opens proceedings against X over efforts to combat inf... by raxxorraxor on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @03:36AM (#38693234)

Examples of censorship around Covid? Are you serious? Pick the topic. Either about the existence of Covid in countries like China, or about the questioning that a vaccinated person still being able to transmit the virus.

This is very thoroughly documented.

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Re:EU opens proceedings against X over efforts to combat inf... by alkonaut on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @03:44AM (#38693281)

Those are on the topic itself. We were arguing whether the discussion of the existence of censorship was being silenced or not.

Basically: did someone who said "I can't talk about X or I'll be silenced! there is censorship!" also get THAT opinion muted?

While it was off the topic of the original argument: was there censorship of the opinion that Covid existed in China in any countries with supposedly free speech?

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