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Eventually the US government (and every government) figured out you can use this secret media censorship to *inject* your propaganda. Since nobody knows who did the censoring or what actually they removed/added, then you use that to inject propaganda.
This allows bad actors to manipulate the public for their own benefit without being held accountable. If censorship is not done in the open then it will be open to secret abuse from bad actors who do not share the values of the original sensitivity reader intent.
So, if this is sensitivity review is done in secret, then it will get abused to manipulate people to believe things that are beneficial to people in power and effectively just maintain the status quo. In a way, it's already doing that. What?
I mean, instead of getting yet another Karen to write a YA novel with a POC making Karen look woke, maybe just publish books written by underrepresented people to start with? You see? Sensitivity readers are basically helping publishers continue to publish Karen's books.
If you know that a work is being changed based on sensitivity reading, what was changed as an improvement, and the person doing the reading is given their proper editor credit (or similar), then that's not really censorship. Real censorship is done in secret to manipulate you.
I wrote this thread because a few of my friends woke up to the news that D&D had the *audacity* to get sensitivity readers: https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/diversity-and-dnd … And I kept having to explain that, if you know they did it, then it's not really censorship.
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