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0 pointsTuring_Machine1y ago0 comments

I don't think the previous commenter is confused at all.

For example, the Catholic Church established its Index of Prohibited Books way back in 1560, and it remained in effect until 1966.

(this is not a criticism of the Catholic Church specifically, mind you... most faiths had similar restrictions, and many still do).

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llamaimperative1y ago

Sure, and those are not “the same kind of people” with the same motives nor rationale nor basis in knowledge as the people advocating for constraints around social media in the present day.

There are religious bookbanners today and they have very little overlap with the anti-social media crowd.

Turing_MachineOP1y ago

> There are religious bookbanners today and they have very little overlap with the anti-social media crowd.

I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree on that. To me it doesn't matter whether there's any actual overlap between the groups. It's the censorious impulse they share. Believing that they have the right to make this type of decision for others is what makes them the "same kind of people".

llamaimperative1y ago

Presumably people who use the law to oppose distribution of child pornography are the “same type” then too, right?

A censorious impulse is a censorious impulse, after all!

Obviously you can use whatever taxonomy of people you want, but yours seems like an extremely esoteric and rather useless one.

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0 pointsTuring_Machine1y ago0 comments

I don't think the previous commenter is confused at all.

For example, the Catholic Church established its Index of Prohibited Books way back in 1560, and it remained in effect until 1966.

(this is not a criticism of the Catholic Church specifically, mind you... most faiths had similar restrictions, and many still do).

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llamaimperative1y ago

Sure, and those are not “the same kind of people” with the same motives nor rationale nor basis in knowledge as the people advocating for constraints around social media in the present day.

There are religious bookbanners today and they have very little overlap with the anti-social media crowd.

Turing_MachineOP1y ago

> There are religious bookbanners today and they have very little overlap with the anti-social media crowd.

llamaimperative1y ago

Presumably people who use the law to oppose distribution of child pornography are the “same type” then too, right?

A censorious impulse is a censorious impulse, after all!

Obviously you can use whatever taxonomy of people you want, but yours seems like an extremely esoteric and rather useless one.

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