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Making Small Steps Against Censorship
JD writes "BBC News has an article about online censorship, blogs in particular. It points out that 'perhaps we need to accept that small gains and slight shifts in direction can make a difference to people's lives, and work for them instead of trying to blast down the walls of repression with a single blow.' Whittling away may be the only realistic way to see change happen."
There is another form of censorship - its called the moderation system.
In theory, the moderation system filters out people who are saying things merely to cause trouble or make people mad or posting irrelevant crap. The people who do moderations are supposed to be objective, and the people who meta-moderate have the same objectivity.
However, upon an obvious inspection, this is far from the case.
Posts that deviate from majoritarian system of thought are often modded down because some people cannot accept differing opinions or viewpoints as being legitimate discussion. The meta-modders often times hold the same opinions, so the meta-mods re-enforce the moderations.
I feel that this has gotten out of control. The editors and admins here refuse to do anything, while the people who moderate, people who are supposed to believe in "freedom", are censoring people who disagree.
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