As a leftist I am sick and tired of censorship to a point that it infuriates me. I have had so many accounts on the internet banned on just about every site that it has completely handicapped my ability to use the internet as a source of great joy of having the freedom to express myself how I want to. I know I am not the only one who is furious about this and there are many more people who feel the same way. Right wingers are expected to be fascist and oppressive and the left is supposed to be the side who is against that and yet they left is just as bad at censoring as the right is and I don't understand how more people don't recognize how bad and illogical it is. We basically have 2 sides that love to censor.

Even "X" is supposed to be against censorship and yet still practices mass censorship and I have had multiple accounts shadow banned or fully banned from there.

Why can't there be a site like Youtube or Reddit where everything that is deemed against whatever rules they have is simply just given a disclaimer that the user who wants to view it just has to agree to it that they still want to view it? It is ridiculous that anybody likes anything that is "hardcore" or "edgy" or "outside of the box" including with their music tastes or comedy tastes or political opinions or whatever else it is they have basically nowhere to go in mainstream society and censorship has basically been accepted on both sides of the political spectrum.

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[–] 9 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

It may be hard to accept, but no private company or person are required to grant you a platform.

Free speech means you may say what you want, it doesn't mean that other people have to accept hosting your conversation.

In the past this was demonstrated with groups having to print and hand out their own flyers and palmphlets to get their word out, these days you expect that to effectively be free by using large social media sites and posting there instead, why should these companies be forced to host content going against their own interests? If that were the case, should socialist and communist website owners be forced to host MAGA content?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 hours ago (2 children)

    There should be mainstream anti-censorhip websites and I am asking why people are not fighting for this more. Society is being severely harmed by all of the censorship. I also never said that sites who promote themselves as a specific private group need to let others join because they are establishing themselves as their own private group. Large sites like Youtube and reddit should be for everyone but they are not, not at all.....so people should be pissed off and demanding there be large anti-censorship sites and people can turn on different types of usage of the site as they choose....such as if they want "kid friendly only" there is an option for that....if somebody wants "no censorsip for anything" there is an option for that

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