Thatiso very much true. More so, drowning your voice in a background noise.
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.
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.
Recommendation algorithms are the new form of censorship
