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George Orwell Warned Us Of The Most Dangerous Type Of Censorship
George Orwell Warned Us Of The Most Dangerous Type Of Censorship
August 13, 2018
The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment. ~George Orwell
The big tech companies are now openly censoring popular viewpoints and deleting select social media pages that supposedly ‘violate community guidelines.’
There is, of course, never a detailed explanation of why companies like You Tube and Facebook delete user-generated pages (our You Tube page was deleted in 2017 for no apparent reason and our Facebook page has been throttled down to almost no reach), and there is never a reasonable way to appeal for the reinstitution of these pages.
The end result of this type of censorship, however, quite likely will not bring about the feared Soviet-style clampdown on ideas that challenge the establishment. It’s more reasonable to expect that these companies have fallen prey to monopolistic hubris and will soon see massive declines in viewership, collapsing stock prices and the revolt of angry shareholders. In other words, these companies are shooting themselves in the feet.
That said, the current social/political/media climate in America today is likely to bring about the rise of a far more insidious and dangerous type of censorship: self-censorship.
The Cambridge Dictionary defines self-censorship as:
control of what you say or do in order to avoid annoying or offending others, but without being told officially that such control is necessary:
Wikipedia defines it as:
Self-censorship is the act of censoring or classifying one’s own discourse. This is done out of fear of, or deference to, the sensibilities or preferences (actual or perceived) of others and without overt pressure from any specific party or institution of authority. ~Wikipedia
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