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teddyh | karma 23902 | avg karma 2.94 · 2021-09-16 13:44:10

Censorship is far from not limited to government action. I see this misconception a lot, and I believe it comes from Americans misinterpreting their first amendment.

unethical_ban | karma 9247 | avg karma 2.01 · 2021-09-16 23:56:00

I figured that might come up, but censorship whether govt. or not is seen as "oppression due to opinion".

Over-aggressive TLD spam filtering is just bad logic from infosec employees.

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teddyh | karma 23902 | avg karma 2.94 · 2021-09-17 02:45:23

Censorship is not limited to “oppression due to opinion”, it can be done for any reason.

unethical_ban | karma 9247 | avg karma 2.01 · 2021-09-17 09:00:18

Well there's where we disagree - on the common usage and context of the word.

teddyh | karma 23902 | avg karma 2.94 · 2021-09-18 11:50:30

If someone omits or deletes people’s texts for racist reasons, that is still censorship, even though it is not done for the opinions of the people who are being censored.