@FLOOF@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • edit-21 month agoIs censorship ok if the person you're censoring is wrong?message-square44arrow-up113
arrow-up113message-squareIs censorship ok if the person you're censoring is wrong?@FLOOF@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • edit-21 month agomessage-square44
minus-square@FLOOF@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilink2•edit-21 month agoYeah, but once the power is there it will be used for less legit reasons, like removing “saying nice stuff about the wrong politician”.
minus-squareRhynoplazlinkfedilink1•1 month agoI’d call that crossing the line. Censoring this may not be the same as censoring that. We might all be fine with censoring this, but censoring that is crossing the line. It doesn’t mean that the first scenario is wrong just because the second is.
Yeah, but once the power is there it will be used for less legit reasons, like removing “saying nice stuff about the wrong politician”.
I’d call that crossing the line.
Censoring this may not be the same as censoring that. We might all be fine with censoring this, but censoring that is crossing the line. It doesn’t mean that the first scenario is wrong just because the second is.