CappyNate🍁 on Nostr: Everyone talks about censorship. But no one talks about what DRIVES censorship. To ...
Everyone talks about censorship. But no one talks about what DRIVES censorship. To me, it's driven by 3 main behaviors:
-HYPERSENSITIVITY: This offends me.
-GROUPTHINK: I can see how this is offensive to you, therefore it offends me too.
-COERCION: Since this offends us, we should "protect" others from the same discomfort we feel, by censoring offensive stuff.
We can build all the censor-resistant mechanisms in the world. But so long as sensitivity and groupthink pervade, weak people will strive to coerce strong ones.
We need to normalize:
-Feeling uncomfortable
-Thinking outside the Overton Window
-Challenging beliefs
-Being different (truly different)
Until we do, the urge to censor will seep out no matter what medium or tangible tools we build to prevent it.
-HYPERSENSITIVITY: This offends me.
-GROUPTHINK: I can see how this is offensive to you, therefore it offends me too.
-COERCION: Since this offends us, we should "protect" others from the same discomfort we feel, by censoring offensive stuff.
We can build all the censor-resistant mechanisms in the world. But so long as sensitivity and groupthink pervade, weak people will strive to coerce strong ones.
We need to normalize:
-Feeling uncomfortable
-Thinking outside the Overton Window
-Challenging beliefs
-Being different (truly different)
Until we do, the urge to censor will seep out no matter what medium or tangible tools we build to prevent it.