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by ta_donk_gt 3560 days ago
I took it to mean that censorship is generally one-sided and logically inconsistent...I guess we see what we want to see.
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Why is that? Censorship is there for a reason, usually because a government wants to protect itself. (When something illegal is removed, it's not censorship.) But unless people who advocate against it accomplish to create consistent arguments, they won't be very successful.
> Why is that?

Why is what? Why did I interpret this as what the author was saying? Why is censorship generally implemented in a biased way?

If the former, based on the way the article was written, I interpreted that phrase as saying that FB is worrying about censoring one side of Isreali-Palestinian, but not the equivalent views on the other side.

And that leads to the conclusion of the latter question above, which is that this is how it generally goes with censorship. We generally only want to censor opposing viewpoints, but not our own views which are often logically equivalent (because being so emotionally invested in our own viewpoints and only being able to see the world from our own vantage point does not allow us to see the opposing views as logically equivalent). That is one-sided and logically inconsistent, but is human nature.

I wasn't saying anything about what should be illegal and what should not, only that I think you misinterpreted what the author was trying to convey.

> We generally only want to censor opposing viewpoints

Some people call that integrity or being self-aware: only doing things that you don't regret. I don't have to explain this, right?