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From: Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de>
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Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Censorship is good, actually. If you don't like that
 fact, maybe you should commit some client-side censorship, otherwise known
 as the killfile.
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 20:55:11 +0200
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On 21.04.2024 um 10:56 Uhr Retro Guy wrote:

> Marco Moock wrote:
> 
> > On 21.04.2024 um 09:45 Uhr Sn!pe wrote:  
> 
> >> I find it hard to believe that genuine new users of Usenet might
> >> sincerely hold such regressive, trollish views.  If "cancel
> >> culture" takes root in Usenet one might as well be on Twitter.  
> 
> > In my age group (Gen Z), such views are widespread.  
> 
> I've noticed that. The acceptance that a person would want someone
> else to decide for them what they can and can not read seems so
> foreign to me. 

For me too, but many of them have exactly that.

> Is it fear of alternative views? 

Sometimes, because they fear of racism, right-wing content etc.

> What do you feel is the main reason some people want views they
> disagree with to be removed from society?

Control over the debate. In some people's "worlds" opinion too far
from their own must not exist.
Some people I know have a huge problem when they are in a debate and
people have a completely contrary opinion about a certain topic,
especially in politics.

-- 
kind regards
Marco

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