Montegriffo wrote: Wed Sep 05, 2018 6:15 pm
Ph64 wrote: Wed Sep 05, 2018 6:11 pm
Montegriffo wrote: Wed Sep 05, 2018 6:04 pm
Still no understanding of the difference between censorship and moderation.
That one is easy. When I restrict myself, it's moderation.
When someone else restricts me, it's censorship.
How about when Martin restricts on his own forum in order to facilitate civil discourse?
Censorship or moderation?
Still censorship.
I moderate my drinking of alcohol. Note that if I don't, the state may censor (arrest) me if I attempt to drive or start fights, mouth off to the cop, etc. They also censor me from its consumption before age 21 (or try to anyways).
Not saying such censorship is always a bad thing, but it is still something imposed on me rather than something I have "moderated" myself from doing. Martin could say it's the "right" thing to censor me, but it would by its nature always be authoritarian, imposed on me rather than by my own choice.