Saturday, November 30, 2013

[eedwneso] Euphemisms for censorship

Many of these are accomplished by social means rather than governmental, but nevertheless thwart the free expression of ideas.  I also make no judgment as to whether the good of each of these kinds of censorship outweigh the bad, merely pointing them out for what they are:

Speaking respectfully
Speaking responsibly
Be respectable
Preventing hate speech
Preventing rape culture
No flaming
No trolling
No obscenities
Boycotting or unfriending a person or organization for their speech
Spam filtering
Political correctness
"Think of the children!"
Parental controls
Traffic shaping
Deep packet inspection
Quality of Service
Copyright
Intellectual property

(Running list, probably will add to it.)

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