• IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I hope people will take this reply in good faith, as that’s definitely where I’m coming from, but I think I sort of disagree with this in general.

    Censorship means not allowing the speech. Denying someone a platform/quiet space to speak is another kind of speech. You don’t have to put a white supremacist on TV to give their side of things. You have to let them speak but you don’t have to give them a megaphone, and choosing to withhold a megaphone from people with crap ideas isn’t censorship, it’s common sense.

    I guess I just want to point out where this kind of thinking seems to lead to in terms of how we treat different kinds of speech.

    • WhoRoger@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Depends where one is coming from. When I hear censorship, the first thing that pops to my mind are political prisoners in the USSR (I live in the then-2nd world), where I think this applies. And I think the logic of it still remains, even if mechanics are different.