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0xy on Aug 27, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Zuckerberg says FBI warning prompted Biden laptop ...

censor

"to suppress or delete as objectionable" [1]

You can't just make up definitions of words. Suppression is censorship.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censor

itronitron on Aug 27, 2022 [–]

If I choose to not throw fuel on a fire, I'm not suppressing the fire. Similarly if I choose to not share gossip about something for which I have no first hand knowledge I am not suppressing it. Hence no censorship.

0xy on Aug 28, 2022 | [–]

So you're doubling down on a definition of the word that you invented?

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