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Censorship is a tool, the end goal of your censor is not to limit your speech but to limit your thinking (self.whatever)

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ensorship may fulfill different goals: it may be aimed at specific content or it may serve as a moderation tool, for example preventing people from arguing against each others. Even in the latest case censorship is aimed at specific words or behaviors. Free speech alone is not enough to defend our self from those who want to limit our speech, these people will use against you every tool at their disposal. The internet is only partially censored: there isn't much you can't find out there, the difference right now is only in what you see first. Reddit is a clear example of this attitude: they scaled the UI so you can see less posts and if you scroll down you always see plenty of controversial comments that don't align with the most upvoted.

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[–]Tiliara -0 points

The sad fact is, as can be seen with controversial comments, its the users themselves who censor the content with the power to vote, effectively contributing to the problem. The confirmation bias is to strong in large communities to sustain a quality debate.

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All search engines are another example

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True enough. As long as ISPs are dumb pipes the internet will be free. People can always self host and use P2P. It gets easier every year. Nothing (good) will change about the gentrified privately owned spaces that involve concentrations of money and that's fine.

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The ISPs are filtering and censoring though.

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Filtering, yes, things like port 25 email. This has been done for ages. Censoring? I'm not sure what you mean. Could you provide an example or even just expand on what you mean by ISP censorship? I haven't seen that personally.