Censorship
Definition
An attempt to control what people can read, see or say.
Context
Is it ever possible for any source of information to be without bias?
The New York Times has tried to say that they give equal airing to all points of view. But the opinion editor was fired for doing just that when he allowed Tom Cotton, a senator from Arkansas, to express his option on the editorial page.[1]
"Censorship an is the actual government interdiction of forbidden speech, and in liberal-democratic countries there's essentially none of this when it comes to culturally contested zones. It's just that we're inclined ts to voice emphatic disapproval about certain forms of speech, which, though disconcerting for the subject of our disapproval, is not at all what we mean by censorship. Organized boycotts are unpleasant, and illiberal in their effects, but they have no resemblance to the actual government interdiction of free speech. Any user of Twitter in its Musk era can see what happens when common sense and caution are removed from conversation. Censorship may be doomed; censoriousness has its uses."[2]
References
- ↑ James Bennet, When the New York Times lost its way (2023-12-14) The Economist https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/12/14/when-the-new-york-times-lost-its-way
- ↑ Adam Gopnik, Laugh Lines New Yorker p 58ff 2023-12-18
