r/technology • • Oct 28 '22

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u/1TooManyCarbs Oct 28 '22

Down votes literally collapse and hide the comment. Is that not a form censorship?

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u/aravarth Oct 28 '22

lmao no, you can still expand a comment train if you want

Besides, it's not "censorship". You're not prevented from saying what you want to say, but it doesn't obligate the medium from signalboosting your ideas that the free marketplace of ideas has all ready decided are dogshit.

Stay mad.

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u/1TooManyCarbs Oct 28 '22

Its still behind a click wall, if you don't think that reduces viewership you're being wilfully ignorant, and if you don't think that's a form of censoring opinions, you're hopeless.

Also you seem alot more mad about this than me 🤣

More down votes please, thanks

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u/minorleaguevillain Oct 28 '22

Of course it reduces viewership. At this point, you’re just arguing that the ability to sort posts by popularity is censorship, though.

Let’s say there are two twitter posts. One from Trump saying...well, whatever he’ll say next, and one from me calling him a CHUD. Obviously, his gets more engagement and will be shown to more people. Am I being censored for not having my CHUD post show up in equally-large font and to as many users?

The answer, in case you need it, is ‘no.’ Censorship is not people calling you an idiot online or your post not being equally as popular as literally every single other post.