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Content moderation and its dis-content-moderators (with Ada Palmer)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Impossibility of Censorship
I imagine in both cases as kind of your idea suggests, the people doing the censoring felt like they were doing something good. And so maybe that's why we have a different reaction. We perceive well-meaningness on the part of the mother. Whereas with the inquisitor, we're more likely to perceive it as an act motivated by power. That's where Orwell is coming in because his model of censorship is completely impossible.
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