#triviallytrue

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I have literally seen people argue that even platform censorship is still just “holding people accountable”, and censorship doesn’t count as censorship unless the government is doing it.

>there’s no moral judgement about it

Yes there is. That’s the whole reason people do it.

And then there’s this post, which is too long and pretentious and self-absorbed to screencap. 

And that’s me talking.

I like the implication that anyone accused of having Crimethink material must’ve carefully and deliberately written it in to have that effect, when a great deal of controversies are about people “seeing” implications that were not intended by the author. 

Often they just make crap up from thin air.

Like the people who said JK Rowling is anti-Semitic because the goblins kind of resemble Jewish stereotypes. When others went “no, goblins have been like that in mythology for centuries”, several people went “that’s because goblins are based on Jewish stereotypes”.

No evidence, of course. 

Just Guilt By Similarity.

People have explicitly said that even a lack of intent doesn’t matter if they think your fiction can have a Bad Effect or just resembles a Bad Thing. If anything, doing it by accident is worse, because you’re not Properly aware.

Or the people who claim the franchise is fascist and white supremacist, even though it’s about fighting bad guys modeled on the Nazis and “prejudice is bad” and is written by a progressive.

Heck, one Vtuber apparently got harassed into retirement just because she wanted to play Hogwarts Legacy and wasn’t aware of the controversy. I saw people claim that anyone playing the game was going against the wishes of Jews and trans people.