Trump Administration Moves to Deny Visas to Factcheckers and Content Moderators
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/Antiwork on Reddit, for instance, bans anyone that supports Capitalism. Is it any surprise that you only see a hatred for all businesses and communist ideas promoted there?
This is why we are seeing more violence and radical behavior.
What do you propose to keep topical forums on topic? There's plenty of forums where pure capitalist sentiment is allowed or encouraged.
/r/antiwork is just an example. Much more general forums are moderated, without the average user knowing the difference. The end result is election interference (like when Google de-platforms and removes search results for candidates it doesn't like) and big tech shaping politics and general opinions, on a massive scale.
Until this practice stops, I have no problem banning Fact checkers and content moderators from the country.
You can most certainly find a forum devoted to whatever topic you desire to discuss, but you can't discuss whatever you desire in a forum devoted to a specific topic. This isn't censorship, and you are using whataboutism to justify not only your own prejudices, but also a national policy of prejudice that appeals only to one particular political faction.
I suppose you are fine with the religious right deciding what books kids should learn in school? You would be the first person to complain about it. How about we ban anyone that says something negative about president Trump?
Squashing any opposing political views is dangerous in a country that claims to to have Democratic elections and freedoms. It amounts to election interference on a massive scale.
To be honest, I see so many people that have your attitude, I have no issue with someone in power censoring any opposing views to the government, just so you get a taste of your own medicine.