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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[–] [S] 1 point 3 hours ago (2 children)

I already said in the post that they can have options that let people choose what they are exposed to on the site. You can choose maximum censorship with "kid friendly only" or switch to "no censorship" at any time. For instance on Youtube they ban videos and ban channels constantly rather than just allowing people to choose the amount of censorship they want to experience the site chooses for them and pisses a ton of people off.

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  • [–] 2 points 30 minutes ago (1 child)

    You said "I have already experienced true freedom of speech and I love it. I just want it to be more mainstream and more people to demand it", and I pointed out that most people wouldn't actually want it due to the problems outlined. The subset of people who like to be able to shout racist slurs at each other with impunity have their own sites for that, and I'm happy for them to be contained there.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 14 minutes ago

    do you have a learning disability? I said you could have an option to filter sections you don't like....leave it up to each individual user so that there isn't blanket mass censorship. You can turn on "kid friendly only" so that you can censor all the words and topics you are scared of being exposed to without pushing your fascist stances onto everyone else.

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