325 sats \ 5 replies \ @kilianbuhn 8 Nov 2022 \ parent \ on: Daily discussion thread
Blocklists aren't censorship tho.
Imagine you're on nyc timesquare and holding a speech. Censorship would be police emprisoning you or putting tape on your mouth. A blocklist is the equivalent of people not listening and going away. That's not censorship.
When the Mastodon server I am on has blocked your server (likely automatically using a shared blocklist), I will not see your toots (posts), and you will not see mine.
That most certainly is censorship (by the admin of my Mastodon server that I am using).
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by the admin of my Mastodon server that I am using
lmao you said it yourself out loud that we're talking about private citizens. Private humans can do whatever they want, everything else is communism 😂😂
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I think you are confusing the concept of "free speech" with the concept of censorship. It doesn't have to be a government that engages in censorship for it to be called censorship.
Yes, an admin of a Mastodon server has the right to do that. So they have not violated my right to free speech. But they have engaged in censorship, and when that occurs I begin to take steps to discontinue my support.
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you're confusing it lmao 😂😂
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How so?
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