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

• LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • Blaze@lazysoci.al ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Censorship isn’t bad anyways when there’s a good reason (ex: hate speech)

      Hate speech should be removed by mods or admins

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      • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sure but it is a form of censorship

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    • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well, as I just showed in the definition, censorship can also be suppression of content without banning. If the government says, you can’t show X content before 9PM on television that is a form of censorship (even though anyone that wants to see that content can still freely see it)

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      • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If the government says, you can’t show X content before 9PM on television that is a form of censorship

        That’s according to you. Does everyone agree with that? Also, how does it compare with downvoting exactly?

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