PreP is near 100% effective at preventing HIV. For sure I could see access to information about PreP or other HIV prevention methods being blocked by an overzealous government.
“The majority decided it. That’s not censorship.”
“The law decided it. That’s not censorship.”
“The users decided it. That’s not censorship.”
“You were just scared your neighbors would kill you, so you didn’t say anything. That’s not censorship.”
I’m having trouble drawing lines.
I’m not opposed to all censorship. I’m just opposed to refusing to acknowledge it for what it is.
If you have your comment flagged by a couple of people, and removed, that is censorship. Plain and simple.
Seems unlikely, not suprising it got flagged to death, however it's there for anyone with ShowDead enabled to read.
I was responding to one speculation, with another, to show that the parent speculation — that censorship of LGBT information would lead to more death by denying sexually active people in the LGBT community with information on STI prevention drugs — was over simplifying the factors involved, to present their speculation as a matter of fact.
If my comment — which I disclosed as mere speculation — is to be censored on those grounds, the parent comment should definitely have been.
I'm still not sold on the notion that limiting public infomation reduces the incidence of gay sex in a society; the Victorians famously did that and ended up with Polari, rent boys, Green Carnations, and generally no end of coded communication.
It made the puritans feel better but did little good otherwise.
Regardless, censorship is not the path to a healthy society and should be rejected on principle.
If a society is looking to decrease STI infection rates I don't see why they'd limit focus to LGBT material and expect any kind of useful result.
When AIDs first appeared Australia made public health announcements addressing all forms of sex as AIDs wasn't limit to male-to-male sexual transmission either, that was merely the demographic pool that STI first appeared in.
But as you point out, STIs aren’t confined to any one group, so focusing exclusively on MSM activity would be a mistake.
With respect to HIV, its prevalence among MSM is 20 to 30 times higher than in the general population.
In 2022, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples continued to experience significantly higher rates of STIs that non-Indigenous Australians.
“Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are diagnosed with chlamydia two times more frequently than non-Indigenous people. For gonorrhoea and syphilis, the rate is more than five times as high.
This all points to the need for better community outreach programs to better inform specific communities, etc.