• CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world
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    1 year ago

    This is a pedantic view of the language that doesn’t add much to the conversation. When a normal person talks about censorship, they mean speech that isn’t direct threats or divulging of information that everyone understands to be dangerous in the wrong hands - like personal information or state secrets, like, say, what the nuclear codes are.

    Of course there are exceptions to everything, but we all understand what “censorship” means, and squashing calls for assassinations or other violence is not it.

    • Blake [he/him]@feddit.uk
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      See, what you’re having trouble with here is that you don’t want to support censorship, even though you do. You don’t like the connotations, so you find some excuse that makes it more comfortable for you. It’s cowardly and dishonest. The word means what it means. Call me a pedant, tell me I’m not adding to the conversation, I don’t care. You’re still supporting censorship whether you want to wear that label or not.