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by markdown 1529 days ago
If that isn't a rhetorical question... capitalism.
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kenoph 1529 days ago
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
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mpalczewski 1529 days ago
> capitalism

If capitalism caused censorship you would expect the least capitalist places to have the least censorship but the opposite is true.

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kenoph 1529 days ago
If capitalism causes censorship, that doesn't mean it's necessarily the worst at causing censorship.

Additionally, we don't live in a stationary society, so, whatever capitalism did or did not cause in the past might not apply as-is today.

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stjohnswarts 1529 days ago
Capitalism (as practiced by democracies) allows you to start an alternative site that doesn't censor results as well. Totalitarianism (Communism) would not have. Choose your poison from amongst the various governments that have succeeded (for a while) in the past as I don't think Utopia is a possibility with humans as messed up as we are.
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markdown 1528 days ago
I'm not sure what your point is. The GP commenter asked what brought us here... it was capitalism. It was people starting other sites that didn't censor or didn't have ads or didn't do this or that. The winners of capitalism are what we have now.
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