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RE: I Got Flagged Three Times Yesterday. Did You?
There are some people who welcome people, but a better question might be, "Are the people that people are welcoming, really people?" More often than not, I feel like they're bots of alt accounts.
I like that you call it "selective viewing." I agree. There are some things I don't want to see, and if it's my post and my comments section, I should be able to decide what gets said there.
There might be some communities that don't want me. Like the community of the short comments. :)
That's a very good point! Ha ha.
I might not fit in the "Express yourself, anything goes" community, or the "All crypto, all the time" community, though I might be able to swing by occasionally, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't fit in the "Vegan" community. I could be wrong but my meat dishes wouldn't go over too well.
It's so easy to call things censorship, or racist, or bigotry, or whatever. The fact of the matter is, we live in a society of all kinds of people, each one with some set of morals and standards. And, reality is, those morals and standards are going to conflict somewhere. Usually, we let things go, as long as no harm is being done. When one side or the other thinks there is harm, then a rational discussion should ensue.
Unfortunately, we skip the rational conversation and go straight to the hysteria.
At any rate, censorship to me is much more meaningful when there's different ideas being expressed, not how they're expressed or whatever else might come with it. Can you believe in freedom and talk about overthrowing oppression without being muted or worse? Can you disagree with your leaders? Can you stand up to authority as a sovereign entity with the same standing under the law, regardless of economic, celebrity or social standing? Can you say things people don't like because they challenge reality rather than shock or overwhelm sensibilities. Profanity and pornography get protected, but they're pretty far down on the priority list when you're trying to establish anti-censorship.