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Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoSo they shutdown because they couldn’t federate with any other instances and considered that censorship
Damn, I actually didn’t see that coming, I guess they will move the goal post from any starting point.
Gloomy@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
I’m going to play devil’s advocate and ask: How is it not censorship?
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Cause no one is stopping you from going to said instance and just having the discussion there.
If there was this super important leak that needed to be out there, if it’s posted on a right wing instance that is a defederated ghost town, it’s still out there. People can link to it and leverage the instance to have the needed discussions.
Censorship means removing access, defederation does not wipe it off of the Internet.
Gloomy@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
I would argue that censorship includes the suppression of information in its definition, not only it’s removal.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The information isn’t being suppressed, just not allowed to seep our of the trash bin it’s currently in
If you want the garbage it’s easy to find. Most normal people don’t, so it gets kept where it won’t taint everything