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Originally Posted by SebC
One can argue that the nature of language is such that words means what the crowds think they mean (screw you people who think literally means figuratively). Also, I found other sources that didn't specify at all who can censor, corroborating wiki's assertion that non-governmental actors can be censors. That's also something that's obvious just by thinking a bit. Self-censorship is a thing, and I am not a government.
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I agree with this, and I think the issue around what exact sort of censorship we’re talking about stems from comments like this:
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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
Censorship never ends in the result you want it.....
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Originally Posted by N-E-B
It’s a slippery slope but I think I’m okay with this one.
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Originally Posted by zamler
Some of you may cheer now and think it's great but at some point censorship is going to bite you in the ass as well.
Nothing good will come of this.
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What this has been an example of is that basic “censorship” exists everyday, there are things you can and cannot say, and that holds true whether you’re posting on social media (including here), at work, in the media, at school, even just in a relationship. There is really no such thing as a reality where we are completely uncensored.
What this is NOT, is a slippery slope, a situation where “nothing good will come of this,” a situation where we should be worried that “censorship” in this form will one day come for us because... newsflash... it’s already here and been here for basically ever. To suggest this is a kind of censorship beyond what each and every one of us have been subject to since birth, is flat out wrong, and certainly not an example of some future of censorship that should concern anyone at all.
I can’t say #### on Calgary puck because it’s censored. I can post pornography on Facebook because it’s censored. I can’t talk to clients at work in a certain way or I will be censored. This is censorship only in the idea that there are certain rules we agree to abide by in society, and if we violate those rules, we are censored to some degree.
If you break those rules, you get censored. Anybody who believes they live a life uncensored is fooling themselves most of all, and all this situation was an example of is that if you break the rules you agreed to, you face the consequences you agreed to face by participating.