My cousin in Singapore said he couldn't even share a news article about a local protest on his social feed because the link was blocked.

He tried to post it to a student group chat at his university, and the whole message got flagged and removed. It made me think about how speech limits aren't always a loud 'no', sometimes they're just a quiet filter you don't see. Has anyone else run into that kind of silent blocking on campus?

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taylor8226d ago

Is that really the case, like they just vanish entire chapters? I had a similar thing happen back in my sophomore year when I was trying to share a documentary about labor strikes. The link wouldn't even load on the campus WiFi, and when I tried to upload a clip from it to my history project, the file got flagged as "sensitive content" and was deleted within an hour. @sarahh48 really nailed it with that invisible librarian image, except this librarian has a delete button for anything they don't like.

sarahh481mo ago

Wow, that's like having an invisible librarian delete pages from books.

barbara2781mo ago

Wait, are you saying they actually remove whole chapters? I just assumed it was a line here or there, maybe a few paragraphs. But entire sections gone, that changes the whole book. How can you even follow the story if key parts are missing?