There’s been a couple of minor dust-ups on mastodon about the conduct of so-called “big accounts” there that I do not care to comment on, but it has got me thinking — do we even have “big accounts” on the threadiverse (Lemmy/piefed/mbin)? I don’t think there’s any handle I’ve seen where I’ve been like “oh yeah, that person.” Am I just bad at remembering usernames, or does the community/thread style of discussion remove all continuity for a single account?

  • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 day ago

    It’s not censorship when I decide I don’t want to host your speech on my site. Censorship is when the government says you can’t host speech at all.

    • Electricd@lemmybefree.net
      1·
      12 hours ago

      Censorship is not only a government thing AT ALL. There are different uses of the word censorship.

      Literally the first lines of Wikipedia

      Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or “inconvenient”. Censorship can be conducted by governments and private institutions.

      It’s one thing not to accept an article on a newspaper which is only meant to accept a couple articles, and many of them having a clear and assumed editor line; and another to remove after publishing a comment or post on a public discussion forum, often claiming freedom of speech.

      If there’s an editor line, then publicly assume it and make it clear when it’s an online discussion forum: reveal your biases.