Re:Reddit’s Politics Section Bans Salon, Mother Jones, HuffP...
by ferdo on Monday November 04, 2013 @08:58AM
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> "Censorship" is a biased word
Only to someone in favor of censorship.
Re:Reddit’s Politics Section Bans Salon, Mother Jones, HuffP...
by staringispolite on Monday November 04, 2013 @12:56PM
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Filtering is not always bad, especially not when it's done transparently, and in pursuit of a better community. To claim that filtering out those low-quality sites, when there are many higher quality sites covering the exact same topics, in just as timely a manner is somehow equivalent to censoring Google results in China - is just disingenuous.
Re:Reddit’s Politics Section Bans Salon, Mother Jones, HuffP...
by ferdo on Thursday November 07, 2013 @08:22AM
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> Filtering is not always bad
That wasn't the issue. The issue was the word 'censorship' being perceived as a biased word. Only censors or those with the predilection to censor would think the word is "biased".
Re:Reddit’s Politics Section Bans Salon, Mother Jones, HuffP...
by staringispolite on Friday November 08, 2013 @12:05PM
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If your position is that the word censorship does not have a negative connotation, I don't know anyone who would agree with you, including, it would seem, your earlier comments.
I'm positing that filtering has neither a positive nor a negative connotation; that all information gets through anyway, it's only low-quality sources of the same information that are filtered; and that calling it censorship in a comment inappropriately pre-disposes the reader to a negative reaction.
"Censorship" is a biased word, usually chosen by people who don't like what's being enforced. I would perhaps use the word "filtering" and it's perfectly common in a lot of subreddits. I don't think "censoring" is fair because all the same topics and events will still get discussed. The theory being that now, discussion starts with - on average - better reporting.