I deleted my former post, because the censorship accusations were based on an error on my side, I had been reading another comment thread related to the author of the post[1] and mixed things up.
Additional edit: removing somewhat off-topic discussion that was replying to an example in the above comment, and discussion of whether a controversial passage was censored.
And no, it was not censoring it (thanks to all of you who replied below pointing this out!). The issue was my incorrect editing of the URL without accounting for the fact that the URL contained URL-encoded characters, namely + as %20.
Is the story here that they are censoring something or that they are not? Because if it were the latter, I'd be sad. Do we assume that for social networks to censor communications on recent politically grave events is the default now?
Gab was "banned" in that the vast majority of instances blocked it and blocked any other instance that didn't do the same.
If that's not censorship, I don't know what is. You can have your sandbox but you can't play with others unless you accept their censorship rules and politics.
There was extensive censorship during covid. Originally starting under the guise of preventing 'misinformation harms'
This censorship framework hasn't been dismantled and is now expanding to basically all other health related concerns. Seemingly even climate change now.
The fact censorship is happening isn't in debate, but the debate should be allowed if we should be censoring these subjects at all. Unfortunately, the debate is censored.
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