In certain situations, blocking, or denying access to a platform, etc., can in effect be censorship. People get confused about this. 1/
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Imagine, for example, if all political debate in a country were de facto conducted on Facebook, and, because of your views, you were... 2/
denied access to Facebook. In this situation, even if you're free to shout your views from a street corner, you are in effect... 3/
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being censored, because you're being denied a voice in the only forum where it could make a difference. Basically... 4/
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if you are denied access to significant elements of what Habermas calls the public sphere - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_sphere … - you're being censored.
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@PhilosophyExp yes. But that's clearly far removed from what is happening in the real world right now. -
@charlsgeorgeson No, it's not. How about LGBT rights in Russia? (Or even in the UK in the recent past with Section 28). -
@PhilosophyExp I'm unclear how they are related to political debate being just on Facebook. Block bot might be 'censorship' in such... -
@charlsgeorgeson I was thinking of absence of access to mainstream media to put alternative viewpoint (e.g., dominance of Murdoch press...
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