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Everyone calling you stupid and telling you to shove your stupidity up your ass is not censorship. You aren't being suppressed, you are being evaluated, and if that makes you feel like you should shut up, then the free market of ideas is working.
Yeah no, that's all fine. We're talking about Nexus mods here though. What they did was censor.
And they completely have that right, seeing as they own the website? Where did this come from? What are you on?
Yeah, and Facebook similarly has the right to their mass influence and control over who sees what around election time. I think they shouldn't have that right though. Facebook is not a person. Companies aren't people. Their capacity for doing damage should be open to audit. There's a reason your food requires a list of ingredients.
It never is, sry for the "reddit" hivemind, corners of the Internet are different as you know, 🤷♂️.
And lemmy.world censored lemmygrad.ml and hexbear and others by defederating with them, as well as enterprises and the government.
That's not censorship. Both lemmygrad and hexbear are alive and well and freely available to anyone interested in what they have to say. By your definition I'm "censoring" Fox News by not watching it.
But it's also preventing others from lemmy.world to see posts or comments from lemmygrad/hexbear/..(, as well as preventing them to post or comment), they're not leaving the choice to lemmy.world users(, nor even asking them).
Honestly, that's a complication that needs to be considered and can be used against us if we do the regulating wrong. There's so many people in here who just have a side and wanna rage against me because I'm not bleating their tune. This isn't about gayness or gay aversion at all. My problem is that the avenues for free speech may as well be abandoned because nobody goes there and exposure is determined by money. The Internet is the best we have and it's being used against truth. My bone is to pick with censorship itself and more specifically when it's done with large audiences.