• milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    As well as small/large, I think there’s a difference between legal/effective/practical censorship.

    With legal censorship but not practical, I can tell my friends things, maybe pay anonymously, but at risk of legal prosecution and worrying about my ethics as a law-abiding citizen.

    Media bias (for example) gives effective censorship for many, but if I care enough I can even start my own media and promote it as best as I can - and some people can be reached.

    To some extent I think the three can balance each other out: for instance I wouldn’t want anti-vaccination rhetoric to be the main thing people hear, but I do want freedom and opportunity for people to question scientific and medical consensus.

    Personally I think social media is a fantastic tool and also a problem - but not a good place for a solution: so I tend not to worry about social media ‘censorship’. Maybe I’m just out of touch!