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Anyone who knows, how will censorship play out in the future? Even censorship by private companies, I don't care how people are silenced, I'm still curious about the effects. Edit: can someone explain the effects of this kind of event that the thread is discussing? whatever you want to call it

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What do you mean by playing out? There will be censorship, and people will live with it. One of the effects on people's self expression is the chilling effect, whereby people self-censor in hope of avoiding threats. In extreme cases this can evolve into people expressing themselves in doublespeak; in a way when there are two realities, one that is, and an another that's permitted to be spoken about. In between there is loaded language, coded language and ultimately dogwhistles, whereby people are using words that seemingly have one meaning that passes as neutral speech, but in fact has an other meaning to those "in the know".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)

How do you define censorship vs content editing? Rogan and Spotify made a deal, he gets lots of money, they rather not host some of the content. Rogan was free to negotiate that, he chose to take the money.

This is what I'm trying to ask about. What will happen if people agree not to have their views published? What effects are there?

I think we're seeing this with Rogan. These ppl, if outrageous enough and friends with other well connected individuals will become very rich. The rest of us will live with the scorched earth left behind.

It’s not censorship when you sign over distribution rights for $100 million and they decide not to distribute content.

For example, I'm curious what could happen if many of the platforms that distribute information become more narrow in what they distribute.

It opens the door for competition.

This is why platforms still try to cater to both sides as much as possible. Watch how uncomfortably the giant platforms handle political squabbles. They don't know how their actions will be taken, so they try to come across as inoffensive as possible.

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