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Censorship means intentional effort towards preventing exchange of certain kind of information among other individuals, for example suppression of [free speech](free_speech.md), altering old works of art for political reasons, forced takedowns of [copyrighted](copyright.md) material from the [Internet](internet.md) etc. Note that thereby censorship does **NOT** include some kinds of data or information filtering, for example censorship does not include filtering out [noise](noise.md) such as [spam](spam.md) on a forum or static from audio (as noise is a non-information) or PERSONAL avoidance of certain information (e.g. using [adblock](adblock.md) or hiding someone's forum posts ONLY FOR ONESELF). Censorship often **hides under euphemisms** such as "[moderation](moderation.md)", "[safe space](safe_space.md)", "[filter](filter.md)", "protection", "delisting", "review", "fact check" etc. **Censorship is always [wrong](bad.md)** -- [good society](less_retarded_society.md) must be compatible with truth, therefore there must never be a slightest reason to censor anything -- whenever censorship is deemed the best solution, something within the society is deeply fucked up. In current society censorship, along with [propaganda](propaganda.md), brainwashing and misinformation, is extremely prevalent and growing -- it's being pushed not only by [governments](government.md) and [corporations](corporation.md) but also by harmful terrorist groups such as [LGBT](lgbt.md) and [feminism](feminism.md) who force media censorship (e.g. that of [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md) or search engines) and punishment of free speech (see [political correctness](political_correctness.md) and "[hate speech](hate_speech.md)").
Censorship constitutes intentional effort towards hiding any kind of [information](information.md) from someone, e.g. preventing exchange of certain kind of information among individuals, suppression of [free speech](free_speech.md), altering old works of [art](art.md) for political reasons, forced takedowns of [copyrighted](copyright.md) material from the [Internet](internet.md) and so forth. I.e. hiding information from SOMEONE ELSE is censorship, but note this definition does NOT include every kind of data or information filtering, for example censorship does not include filtering out [noise](noise.md) such as [spam](spam.md) on a forum or static from audio (as noise is a non-information) or PERSONAL avoidance of certain information (e.g. using [adblock](adblock.md) or hiding someone's forum posts ONLY FOR ONESELF) -- censorship simply means one prevents someone else from reaching some knowledge. Censorship often **hides under euphemisms** such as "[moderation](moderation.md)", "[safe space](safe_space.md)", "peer review", "[filtering](filter.md)", "protection", "delisting", "deplatforming", "fact check", "isolation" etc. **Censorship is always [wrong](bad.md)** -- [good society](less_retarded_society.md) must be compatible with truth, thus there must never be a slightest reason to censor anything -- whenever censorship is deemed the best solution, something within the society is deeply fucked up. In current society censorship, along with [propaganda](propaganda.md), brainwashing and misinformation, is extremely prevalent and growing -- it's being pushed not only by [governments](government.md) and [corporations](corporation.md) but also by harmful terrorist groups such as [LGBT](lgbt.md) and [feminism](feminism.md) who force media censorship (e.g. that of [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md) or search engines) and punishment of free speech (see [political correctness](political_correctness.md) and "[hate speech](hate_speech.md)").
Sometimes you can actually exploit censorship to get to good content -- look up a block list (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Blocked_websites_by_country), then you have a list of interesting places you probably want to visit :)
Sometimes you can actually **exploit the effort of censors to get to the good content** -- look up a blacklist (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Blocked_websites_by_country, https://peertube_isolation.frama.io/list/peertube_isolation.txt and so on), then you have a list of interesting places you probably want to visit :) For [political cowardice](political_correctness.md) blacklistst are nowadays also called "block lists", "isolation lists" etc. -- just look for those.
Sometimes it is not 100% clear which action constitutes censorship: for example categorization such as moving a forum post from one thread to another (possibly less visible) thread may or may not be deemed censorship -- this depends on the intended result of such action; moving a post somewhere else doesn't remove it completely but can make it less visible. Whether something is censorship always depends on the answer to the question: "does the action prevent others from information sharing?".