• @Omniraptor@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    The thing is, I dislike censorship in general. Corporate or government. Yes it’s the corp’s prerogative, but we’re allowed to criticize corporate censorship and hypocrisy regarding censorship.

    I don’t get why people defend censorship by powerful/monopolistic companies run by billionaires while criticizing censorship by the government. They’re not that different.

    • @Omniraptor@lemm.ee
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      32 months ago

      My personal opinion is that for “edge cases” like cisgender, I should be the one who decides what “slurs” I see or don’t see on the feed, rather than some shmuck twitter mod who watched a YouTube video or whatever.

      • @winterayars@sh.itjust.works
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        22 months ago

        I mean it’s still not an edge case. It’s just not.

        Like, insert that “That’s not how this works, that isn’t how any of this works” meme here.

        • @Omniraptor@lemm.ee
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          12 months ago

          yes, that’s why I put it in quotes. However given the diversity of culture and language there’s still going to be slurs that the predominantly English speaking mods will not be aware of, so users should be able to set their own filters.

      • @ulterno
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        2 months ago

        Well, you have that choice on Lemmy. Even if a mod deletes a comment, you still get to see it in the Mod Log.

        And this is how their[1] empires fall.


        1. implying X, Reddit etc. ↩︎

    • @ulterno
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      02 months ago

      I don’t get why people defend censorship by powerful/monopolistic companies

      I won’t get that either.

      But unlike the Government, which is at least, supposed to care about us when making their policies,
      the companies don’t. Whatever gets them more money[1] is what wins.

      Well, said companies will realise in time[2] when it hurts them where they care about and will have to consider changing stances.


      1. No idea about X though, it seems to love losing everything ↩︎

      2. once the Federation evens (or at least smooths down a bit) the playing field ↩︎