what is corportate censorship?
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Corporate censorship is a term used to denote either censorship through legal challenges, through refusal to sell a product, or refusal to advertise or allow air time.
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They have a harebrained reporting and deleting system here. Their "community guidelines" are broad, and they're enforced arbitrarily.
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I received an e-mail yesterday, which was apologising for errors made in the censorship. This was from Yahoo UK.\nThey are trying to do something about it. Apparently the address for complaining to when you receive a violation which you think is wrong had an error in it, so many people never received replies to their violation complaints.\nPerhaps it will be better now.
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get rid of freedom of speech
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This site censors "ma$turbation". There are not any negative ones. However there are positive ones.
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**** is basically a type of censorship\nThey most likely they show up to many bad words that pop up when trying to ask or answer a question to avoid a "report abuse" from a certain person.\nThey censor bad words commonly found in slang and in the english dicitonary.
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Freedom of Speech is not an absolute.  The Supreme Court along time ago decided obcenity is not protected speech.\n\nNow censorship is something that only the government can do.  Take the theaters that refused to carry that Brokeback Mountain.  That was a freemarkedt decision, where it would have affected the profits of the theater owners if he had run the film.  His property, his decision.  Now if the government stepped in then it should be banned that's censorship\n\nLike I said free speech isn't an absolute, you can't yell fire in a crowded theater, or anything that would put someone at risk.
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there's gotta be, same for answers and users.\nsomebody oughta do a site like this and take out all the damn censors.\n\nnot just the deleting of answers and questions, but also they should do away with replacing profanity with this thing  *\ni think it's called an asterisk\n\nany one who dissagrees can do what bender from futurama said\n\n\nBITE MY SHINY METAL A,S,S
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Absolutely not. It's necessary to protect the right to free unbiased information. This applies for free speech as well. There's no such thing as the right to censor something to protect something else. About movies, they should come all in UNRATED version, with option to censor through the DVD player those parts children shouldn't see.\nSomething else: those who claim that the so-called "hate speech" should be banned don't really believe in free speech, or at least don't understand the concept.
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True, censorship is an attempt to stop the transmission of information to society, but by doing that I think it shows the world that ideas can be soooo powerful that people fear them and want to stop their spread.  That should show people how important thought and the development of ideas is.  It should show people that ideas have the power to change the world.  This should make people want to know and want to think.  Does this happen?  I don’t know, but that is what it does to me and what it should do!
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I can't tell you without it getting censored.
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they removed one of mine yesterday.  it isn't prejudice but it is censorship.  they have vulgar questions and answers yet the removed ours.   we could boycott but then what would i do at work all day?  work-lol!
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Censorship doesn't make much sense. The word "Jew" for a long time was not allowed in an online Scrabble game. Now they allow it. Does that make sense?\nSince four letter words are not allowed on some sites, some people type f-u-c-k, and the words go through. Does that make sense?\nPeople that use a 4-letter word in every sentence are boring, but how can words hurt us, as the old saying suggests?\nP.S. When I reread what I have just said, I must admit that some words do hurt, especially if they are true, but I don't think that justifies censorship which is subjecting us to another's sensitivities.
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Well, that can be a tricky question. Most censorship and obscenity regulation is set based on what the majority of people find offensive. Sometimes it is not even the material to be censored that is offensive, but studies showing that it leads to something offensive, a study linking obscenity to mistreatment of women as an example. \n\nOfficials either elected or appointed by, elected officials set these guidelines. Who elects these people? The majority of voters elect them. \n\nSo, we have people electing officials and those officials either directly setting censorship guidelines, or appointing other people to set those guidelines. \n\nSo while censorship is set directly be a small number of people, the majority sets those people in place. It's like censorship via proxy. So it is based both on our values and those of others. Democracy is about compromise, keeping things neither to liberal or too conservative.\n\nAs for whether or not censorship is based on your morals, you would have to ask yourself on each issue, are you in the majority, or the minority?
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Recent reports indicate as few as five companies exert almost total control, at the government's commands since 1991, of the news media outlets combining print, TV, and radio. The government guided censorship is attended by propaganda and misinformation, which in toto, some say, grossly insult, dis-serve, and injure the Jeffersonian democray of a free, educated, and informed citizenry which should be trusted to decide justly the course of the ship of state. In opposition, warmongering profiteers and political cronies have pirated the ship of state via tactics of deception and fear and steer it toward the oilfields. Luckily, some fearless lookouts have climbed the crowsnest- the higher moral ground of the less constrained Internet, and they show us that the truth is out there, and it spells corruption and possibly treason as some of the reasons we are under-informed about ongoing genocide, atrocities, and other sources of diminishment to the 'establishment'- they fear truth so much- ask Rumsfeld- and loss of their obscene criminal profits- that they would deny anything- truth to us, life itself to others- rather than lose. What is really going on is world-wide cultural revolution, nothing less, but you cannot readily discover this without somewhat agressive research. The more we learn, the more we realize how little we really know.
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I agree. This is censorship.
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My opnion it SHOULDNT be censored. Why change it from the way it was orginally made.