Censorship is the suppression of messages of a certain kind under threat of physical force by a government that initiates force against it’s own citizens.
The purposely misused term as a chat option is of poor taste, and it is a poorly veiled attempt by some employee (who has clearly never experienced censorship first-hand) at “normalizing” a concept with a bloody history.
There is nothing wrong with filtering messages from chat. It’s the deliberate choice of the word Censor that is repulsive.
I think censoring messages is only good for the younger audience or protective parents who don’t want their children to see the nasty things people say in this game. Other than that, I am not a huge fan of this idea.
That’s called filtering.
additional social settings that will allow players to filter out inappropriate chat messages as well as exception settings to this new Censorship.
Clearly you read the title and skipped the entire post.
I would say this was true a century ago, but language constantly shifts. People do not use the term only as what it used to mean; which was simply one’s office of being a Censor. That was the only definition of “censorship” per an 1832 Webster’s.
So technically, your definition is incorrect according to that dictionary. But since language does change, we know that your definition is actually correct now. But so is the definition that regards a company deleting comments as also " censorship".
Except that I am not speaking about a company deleting messages. I am speaking about a player simply choosing to filter out (not see) certain messages.
That is not Censorship even by your own neutered definition of the term.
Calling in-game language filtering “Censorship” is a deliberate ploy by an individual to make light of a violent concept.
Talk about your false outrage over nothing. Anyhoo lets go back to Censor/Censorship being Roman Magistrates!
Which I believe was the original origin of the word but it might have come from something even older. Huh they were essentially tax collectors.
Let’s do that. Censor [n.] Message would then make no grammatical sense.
You know you are wrong when your argument cancels itself out.
It’s not Sunday yet god damnit.
A Censor [n.] message would the the hand written papyrus scroll telling you how much you own in taxes this year!
A synonym for which could be censoring
I love nerding out on words and how they evolve. From doing some Google Fu it seems Censor came from census and as I mentioned earlier was the name of a magisterial position in Rome who counted citizens and calculated how much tax they owed. This information went into a list and when that person payed their name was censored (removed/blanked out) from the list. So at it’s most primitive censor means to blank out.
Gotta love the sudden ‘biology’ angle when it wasn’t even a part of the topic prior.
Yeesh.
Then you cant grasp the basic concept of analogy.
Why are yall so obsessed with trans folk, like really.
Censorship: the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.
This does not specifically apply to governments. Nor is it exclusive to under threat of physical force.
While one could view filtering and outright blocking of messages as censorship in a country where the free speech is supposed to be guaranteed. It is a private entity and they are free to censor whatever they wish or ask you to leave.
But then you have censoring in clinical trials, Statistics has right, left and interval censoring for dealing with incomplete data and outliers. The word can have quite a wide range of uses both as a noun and a verb.
I just need to know if there is an option to censor everything so anything any of you says just doesn’t show up. That would be ideal.
Yes! Don’t come to the forums! I think putting people on forever ignore works as well.