There’s been a couple of minor dust-ups on mastodon about the conduct of so-called “big accounts” there that I do not care to comment on, but it has got me thinking — do we even have “big accounts” on the threadiverse (Lemmy/piefed/mbin)? I don’t think there’s any handle I’ve seen where I’ve been like “oh yeah, that person.” Am I just bad at remembering usernames, or does the community/thread style of discussion remove all continuity for a single account?
It’s not censorship when I decide I don’t want to host your speech on my site. Censorship is when the government says you can’t host speech at all.
Edit: to elaborate:
If you mail a letter to your local newspaper and they do not run it, that isn’t censorship. If you mail a photograph to a magazine and they do not print it, that isn’t censorship. If you send a clip to a tv station and they don’t air it, that isn’t censorship. If you send a movie to your local movie theater and they don’t show it, that isn’t censorship. If you send a song to your local radio station and they don’t play it, that isn’t censorship. If you send a post to a Lemmy instance and they don’t host it, that isn’t censorship.
Censorship is not only a government thing AT ALL. There are different uses of the word censorship.
Literally the first lines of Wikipedia
It’s one thing not to accept an article on a newspaper which is only meant to accept a couple articles, and many of them having a clear and assumed editor line; and another to remove after publishing a comment or post on a public discussion forum, often claiming freedom of speech, because the admins do not agree with that the person says for political reasons.
If there’s an editor line, then publicly assume it and make it clear when it’s an online discussion forum: reveal your biases.