It’s weird. The simple fact of being watched and told what you can say. And the possibility that what you’re saying is being edited and what you’re hearing is edited too.

This strikes me as abhorrent. But most of the people here call it necessary, preferable and even desirable.

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    I mean, it’s been around as a concept for a couple centuries. If anything I’d say that it’s “on the out” as something seriously suggested in popular discourse. It’s just that we’ve semi-accidentally built the infrastructure to implement such a thing very quickly.

    But most of the people here call it necessary, preferable and even desirable.

    To be clear, where’s “here”? Lemmy, your IRL location, somewhere else?