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by darawk 1521 days ago
The only modern examples of censorship coming from the right I can think of are the anti-CRT and "don't say gay" type bills. These laws are certainly problematic, but as tools of censorship, they're narrowly targeted at children, not adults. There's a pretty longstanding cultural consensus around censoring content targeted at children, for better or worse. We may not agree with the particular choices being made on the right here about content, but it doesn't seem to me like, per se, a free speech issue in the normal sense.

Maybe you are aware of some example that i'm not, though.

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>as tools of censorship, they're narrowly targeted at children, not adults.

Children eventually become adults. How do we expect the adults of the future to deal with difficult topics like race if we prevent them from learning about them?

>Maybe you are aware of some example that i'm not, though.

I linked to another example in a different comment.[1]

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31085565