[thisiscorrect]

>Ideas, especially those that stoke resentments, are like viruses.

The problem is that people make statements like this but apply them selectively. E.g., platforms like major news networks are happy to give airtime to the claim that people alive today, who never owned slaves and are very likely not descended from anyone who did, must pay reparations to others alive today who were never enslaved and may well not be descended from slaves. These same platforms also give airtime to those claiming all societal ills stem from one ethnic group or another (as long as it's the "right" ethnic group being blamed).

This incredibly skewed double standard isn't fooling anyone.

[hackerlight]

How is this relevant to the question of whether censorship is effective?

[gadflyinyoureye]

Because one measure of effectiveness can be equality of application.

[ovao]

Another measure might be the extent to which it leads to an unequal distribution of knowledge. Censorship can be seen as means of preventing misinformation, and sometimes quite effective at that, but a potential negative byproduct is limiting the output of (interpretable) factual information.