hattulanHuumeparoni

hattulanHuumeparoni t1_j131qnz wrote

>the action of preventing part or the whole of a book, film, work of art, document, or other kind of communication from being seen or made available to the public, because it is considered to be offensive or harmful, or because it contains information that someone wishes to keep secret, often for political reasons

>a system in which an authority limits the ideas that people are allowed to express and prevents books, films, works of art, documents, or other kinds of communication from being seen or made available to the public, because they include or support certain ideas:

These are from Cambridge. They don't really apply to a federated social media either: nothing is prevented to be seen, people can just choose not to see it if they want.

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hattulanHuumeparoni t1_j0zwtn4 wrote

>They're upset that Twitter won't censor the people they want to censor

Yeah pretty rich of you to complain about bad faith arguments. But since you don't mind appeals to authority, here's the wiktionary definition of cencorship

>The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent media from being published or propagated.

How exactly does that apply to a federated protocol, where people are completely free to move to other instances, or even host them?

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hattulanHuumeparoni t1_izrv6ju wrote

> The error message literally explained it to you concisely.

Well if you are a programmer, an error like this is trivial and the explanation is wordy.

On the other hand, the first paragraph is close to a perfect explanation of the issue for a programming student. It does not expect you to know programming terminology, and reads like a textbook.

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