• airrowOPM
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    3 months ago

    I see that presumably your instance is German; perhaps there is a misunderstanding of culture then? In America there was a widespread belief in “classical liberal” or “libertarian” values, which would allow access to pretty much any text. This view was represented on a lot of the culture of the internet for a while including much of Reddit at its founding until sometime within the last decade. The decision to not tolerate access to such texts was thought to be fundamentally anti-American and alien to the free culture that prevailed, and so really there wasn’t much of a discussion on the topic; this move of barring access to the texts would have simply been widely ridiculed and rejected…

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      3 months ago

      Especially on a subreddit whose raison d’etre is ostensibly to criticize the banning of books.