Posted @ whirlpool - ILCF pt8

You guys can never accept that restrictions on certain messages in certain venues is not the same thing as censorship, can you?

No, because even by degrees, it is still censorship and necessarily so. The quibble here is merely when it becomes (and oh how this word make me laugh) "offensive".

Tis so much easier to determine via the measure of Objective as opposed to subjective, too – with the added bonus of the cross over point being quite fixed with the former and quite meaningless with the latter.

When the Government steps in and says there is no venue appropriate for your message, that's censorship.

No, that is just a particular level of censorship that you may or may not support according to personal preference probably decided/influenced by subjectivity.

Just like when WP mods step in and say these forums are not an appropriate vehicle for one's message, or your workplace steps in and says their network isn't appropriate vehicle for your message.

Once a community decide that something is not appropriate for the well being and progess of said community, censorship is a necessary and justifiable follow on from that decision, and there is nothing evil or unreasonably oppressive about implementing such needful censorship once that decision has been made – unless that which is being shutdown is actually the way of righteousness that is ... but then we are back to Subjective Morality vs Objective Morality again, hmmm ?

regarDS