Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm out of this forum!

[shiretoko]

I never claimed that this is a real form of censorship though I think that it  
has some similarities.
Just because the post is 'hidden' and not deleted doesn't make this system  
legit.
Imagine a bookstore installs such a rating system:
if three people don't like a certain book, it gets stored in a seperate room  
for the bad books with a stamp on it and people have to go there if they want  
to have a look at it.
In theory, the books are still accessable for the public, but in reality: how  
many people will go to this seperate room and read it?
So in the end, the readership has been successfully cut and we have to some  
good percentage achieved what real censorship would have done.
Maybe I would like to call it 'soft censorship' because it shares the same  
spirit.