I think you do not really see the actual difference between freedom of speech and censorship.Chips wrote: ↑Wed, 26. Jan 22, 17:44I'm only asking as while I read bits of comments here I noticed some about the media and/or social media not censoring various individuals. Then I remembered the "Freedom of speech" type threads/claims/critiques in the past; how would they deciding upon whom to censor tally with freedoms held dear and defended by some? (I'm offering no opinion on this, just questioning).
a few years ago at the bus stop from my work I had a dude with a megaphone that was literaly screaming "The end is near, repent, repent!" every day for months.
Him screaming in public place is free speech.
If I'd go and bash his head with his megaphone, that's censorship.
If a policeman would get and bash his head as well, that's censorship.
If a policeman come to me and cover my ears saying "this is misinformation", that would be censorship, also creepy as f***.
Me, putting headphones into my ears, playing some music to retain sanity...is not censorship.
The current state of media is that dude screaming at every corner, 24/7/365 in every medium possible, random mobs of activist bashing random people on the street for simply staying near and police covering your ears instead of catching criminals - literally a toxic insanity that would baffle you in real life.
Addendum - spam filters are not censorship.
Every single anti-phishing training say "message that try to affect your emotions, push sence of urgency and last-chance opportunity is made to abuse your basic human instints".
99% of media noise is simply a spam that try to sell you an imaginary narrative.
It worth to repeat, because there is waaaay to much doom message pumped by media on both sides like no tomorrow:
If someone think evil Biden/Trump is going to get you and democrats/republicans are about to takeover and ruin democracy...the problem might be inside the head.
If your message is "THEY are going to get you and that THEY are everywhere", you might be an unsound person at best and at worst you're starting to grow a moustache (the tiny one, or the big one...there isn't much of a difference at the end).