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Overheard a guy at the hardware store say "censorship is just curation" and it bugged me all day
Honestly I was just grabbing some fence posts near Boulder last Saturday and this dude in line was talking to his buddy about some subreddit that got shut down. He said it like it was no big deal, like banning a whole community is the same as picking what to put on a shelf. I kept thinking about it while I was loading my truck. Curation is choosing what you want to see. Censorship is stopping someone else from seeing something. Those are not the same thing at all. Has anyone else run into that kind of talk where people just redefine words to make banning people sound normal?
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thompson.robin17d ago
Yeah "it's just curation" is exactly the kind of phrase that sounds reasonable if you don't think about it for two seconds. It's like when people say "you don't need a receipt for that small purchase" every time a cashier waves off a return policy. That's not being helpful, that's erasing your right to prove something later. Same with the curation thing - they're pretending choosing what to block is the same as choosing what to feature, but one takes away someone else's choice entirely. I see that same mental shortcut everywhere now, where people smooth over a harsh thing by giving it a nicer label.
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