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You are loosely interpreting the word "suppression". Moderation is more akin to taking back an already provided microphone than it is to "suppression". The baseline for a person's ability to speak does not include someone else's forum. A common example of censorship is with music on the radio: Musicians record a song which contains the word "fuck", which radio hosts would like to play in its entirety, but the hosts a…
> You are loosely interpreting the word "suppression". Moderation / censorship, taxes / theft, capital execution / murder are the same idea, one is just the more palatable way to express the other. > The irony is that the latter case is extremely common practice for many right-wing radio hosts who are equating moderation with censorship It's just as much the case on many left wing broadcast media. Don't conflate "lef…
If you would have bothered to read my comment, you would have learned that there is an explicit difference in meaning beyond a core idea.
> It's just as much the case on many left wing broadcast media. Don't conflate "left wing" with "openness".
I didn't mention "left wing" at all, nor did I imply that "left wing media" was any better than "right-wing media". Don't conflate criticism of "right-wing media" with blind faith in "left-wing media". My point was that it is "right-wing media" that are wrongly equating moderation with censorship here.