I'd never heard of GR librarians before, so I looked it up -- it's cool that you do that. You will know way more than I do about GR then. Thanks for giving me a window into what goes on behind the scenes and what you're seeing happening there.
That is extremely troubling about the censorship. I wonder if a lot of these sites find it easier to silence someone than to deal with other users' complaints about whatever they're saying. Being generous to GR, maybe there's a lot of ism-ing or attacks in the comments of these far-right books? And for some reason instead of taking it on a case-by-case basis, they're just shutting down the whole thing? That's how group administrators seem to handle it on FB; just shut down the whole comments section if it's going in a troublesome direction. For that matter, I see administrators do that here, too.
I guess private companies are allowed to do whatever they want, which puts freedom of speech in a precarious position, since so much speech these days takes place online and every social media site is a private company.
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Date: 2025-05-14 09:50 pm (UTC)That is extremely troubling about the censorship. I wonder if a lot of these sites find it easier to silence someone than to deal with other users' complaints about whatever they're saying. Being generous to GR, maybe there's a lot of ism-ing or attacks in the comments of these far-right books? And for some reason instead of taking it on a case-by-case basis, they're just shutting down the whole thing? That's how group administrators seem to handle it on FB; just shut down the whole comments section if it's going in a troublesome direction. For that matter, I see administrators do that here, too.
I guess private companies are allowed to do whatever they want, which puts freedom of speech in a precarious position, since so much speech these days takes place online and every social media site is a private company.