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This is the exact same response you'd get if it had everything to do with censorship.

id expect that if it were about censorship, they wouldnt say anything, and any instance of removal would be noted as being from the spam filter.

The spam filter intentionally or not does a lot of censorship

This line of reasoning, presented without evidence, can be used to undermine virtually any statement; it doesn't contribute to discourse in any way.

Sorry, I'm not sure what you're talking about. But I think it's pretty basic common sense that nobody censoring information will explicitly admit to it.

This is the exact same response you'd get if it had everything to do with ~censorship~ attempting push back on anything that reduces a propaganda vector.

Do you see?

The difference is that in Western society (assume you're Western), we've agreed that people should have the right to think for themselves and decided what is right and wrong- so it should be up to them to decided what is propaganda and what isn't.

I don't disagree with this. I'm saying that your original reply relies on nothing but insinuation.

Huh? It’s also the exact same response you’d get if it had nothing to do with censorship. Your comment offers nothing.

So this ^ deserves a downvote? Please tell me why.

It's basically the same comment as the gp

I must be confused because I don’t see how. Isn’t it the exact opposite?

GP is essentially saying “that’s what you’d say if you were lying” and I’m responding with a silly, opposing example of “that’s what you’d say if you were telling the truth”. They are both meaningless statements. The second serves to point out the meaninglessness of the first.

Or I’m just going crazy.

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