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eigenspace 2 hours ago

If you count platform moderation as 'censorship' then there's practically no uncensored public spaces on the internet.

Literally even 4chan has moderation.

Nobody, not even 4chan users, want an actually unmoderated space.

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NDlurker an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Some of the moderation is just banning people with differing opinions.

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howunfortunate an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My comment above does not rely on the premise that all moderation is censorship. Only that some Reddit mods engage in censorship.

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zrobotics 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

4chan users might want that, but even for the types of people willing to operate a site like that they don't want to be liable for the amount of CSAM, piracy, and other legally objectionable material that would end up on a fully unmoderated site.

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eigenspace an hour ago | parent [-]

Deciding what is spam and blocking it is moderation or "censorship".

If 4chan didnt have spam filters, the users would be begging for it almost immediately because the website would become unusable.

	▲	zrobotics 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		We might be talking past each other a bit. I agree that without any sort of spam filter a comment site would become unusable. What I was trying to point out is that there are a lot of users of these 'edgy' sites that would like to post content that the site owners don't want them posting. So the site owner censors and removes CSAM and piracy so that the site isn't immediately in a legal black hole. The site owners remove content that at least some of the users would want be a use they find it morally or legally objectionable. Spam is kinda orthogonal to that point, since neither the site owner or the users want to see it.

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like_any_other 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You still want to know the extent of that 'moderation' that is totally not censorship. E.g. Facebook and Instagram ban white nationalism, and Youtube has banned American Renaissance, meaning we can infer Google bans white nationalism too, as American Renaissance is guilty of nothing else.

You may agree or disagree with the ban, but surely you agree that we should be aware of such Overton window enforcement?