Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.

• LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They certainly are censorship in the sense that it reduces other people’s ability to see that content.

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That is not at all a reasonable definition of censorship.

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    • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Censorship is “the suppression or prohibition of [media] that is considered obscene, politically unacceptable or a threat to security” according to Oxford dictionary.

      How is downvoting content with the intent to make it less visible to other users not a form of suppression?

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      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The sine qua non of censorship is the authoritarian component missing from your definition. A moderator or administrator removing an article from a forum is censorship. A user demonstrating their disapproval of that article within the forum doesn’t qualify as censorship.

        The Oxford definition is not wrong, just incomplete.

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      • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Because that’s social media we’re talking about. It’s an algorithm. There’s no central authority. The visibility of a post is chosen democratically and freely.

        Censorship is removing and banning content. Censorship isn’t bad anyways when there’s a good reason (ex: hate speech)

        Anyone that wants to see said content can still freely do it. Censorship would be abusive moderation, like banning someone because they don’t agree with you, essentially removing their freedom of speech

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  • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can you blame censorship when you’ve voluntarily decided to participate in a network that has a voting for visibility system?

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    • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not blaming anyone I’m just saying it meets the definition of censorship.

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      • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I kind of see your point, but I wouldn’t say it’s censorship

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