If censorship is merely annoying, but otherwise ineffective, why do people keep portraying every act of moderation that any site performs as a slippery slope towards global Orwellian dystopia?
Why are people worried about cancel culture and "SJWs" and the "Left" purging conservative voices and "erasing history?" Why are some adamant that we need to have the government force all platforms to allow all forms of speech without moderation in order to combat the absolute, near Stalin-like censorship power that social media is perceived to have over all human communication?
Just reading this thread makes it obvious that people are worried about a lot more than merely being annoyed by it.
Censorship is pretty good at suppressing the words or images that are being suppressed. It's not very good at suppressing the thoughts or feelings that are considered wrong.
Nazi symbols are banned in Germany, but they still have neo-Nazis.
It's unfortunate when artistic works have a banned symbol and so the work is suppressed, and that art becomes hard to obtain and difficult to discuss with others.
Why are people worried about cancel culture and "SJWs" and the "Left" purging conservative voices and "erasing history?" Why are some adamant that we need to have the government force all platforms to allow all forms of speech without moderation in order to combat the absolute, near Stalin-like censorship power that social media is perceived to have over all human communication?
Just reading this thread makes it obvious that people are worried about a lot more than merely being annoyed by it.