What do you think of censorship

I don’t really think language has ever been a problem on here. Even though this is the off topic forum, some topics on here can be a bit... too much. Trolling is fun, but there is a limit, other topics are controversial and often are not written well (coming off racist, trying to trigger people, etc) so you get 200 comments and bunch of MS all over the place, it doesn’t lead to useful and healthy discourse. Even with all that, I don’t think topics should be deleted, unless it crosses some line. Now, what that line is or should be, I don’t know. It’s up to the mods. However, I do believe this site should be as open and as free as possible when it comes to discussing controversial topics. By the way, I don’t think censorship is too bad on here, I’ve made some posts that could be controversial and so have many others and they weren’t deleted. Maybe it’s just me, but it doesn’t seem that bad.

I’m against all censorship. People should say whatever the fuck they want. I don’t care if it’s rAcISt, HoMopHoBic, trANspHoBiC, whatever label you throw at it. The problem is that the moment you define a certain type of speech that can’t be used, it’s up to the “moderator” to decide what qualifies as that kind of speech. In principle, these rules may sound great (no racism, homophobia, be nice, etc), but in practice, the almighty “moderator” could end up censoring whatever they disagree with. They won’t do this on purpose 9 times out of 10, but they’ll rationalize why a certain comment goes against their rules when in fact, they just strongly disagree with an opinion. And that’s how freedom of speech slowly goes away. This is just on an online forum (and this doesn’t happen much on WSO...for now), so it doesn’t really matter, but it still sucks.

I think instead of this almighty, centralized group of moderators censoring and banning people outright, individual users should be allowed to block certain threads/users so only they don’t have to look at their posts. If you think something is offensive, then fine don’t look at it, but don’t make that decision for the rest of us.

remember EliteStudent21 and harvardboy? Not gonna lie, they were funny asf, pretty sure they were both run by some UNC kid lmao

The recent thread(s) about India got deleted because it crossed the line culturally and it wasn't even meant as a joke or anything. A lot of people have a problem with immigrants at college or work. It is their problem to have and their opinion, coming to WSO or other forums and post negative stereotypes isn't acceptable (to most forums).

Trolling is one thing, at times even acceptable if funny and entertaining, but inciting hatred or conflict on a forum is not a solution.

It's not that bad. On fishbowl I got shadow banned for saying I wouldn't take the vaccine because it's rushed and disease is not super deadly. 

It's great if you live in China, otherwise...

I generally get censored when I post some batshit insane thing libs say on social media or within education. The libs see themselves as morally superior and unquestionably right, thus can't accept being confronted about their fallacies. 

Worse than Hitler.

Thread on Thanksgiving and covid mysteriously disappearred.....

Think of it as a way to stimulate the direction your conversation skills & humor should take if you were to get into the almighty investment banking and private equity world. Would be nice to see more collegial debate (not to say there isnt a lot of it already) and less shitposting. Leave that stuff to reddit 

People coming on here to be children kinda defeats the purpose of coming here to grow up and get into finance. I don't have a problem with mods trying to maintain quality before it's too late and the 30+ crowd of professionals with all the useful advice stop checking in. 

Let's not pretend this is a media outlet and your voice is being stifled. We're all (mostly) anonymous here. 

WSO is pretty lenient when it comes to letting people speak their minds regardless of topic.  Other forums that I am participate in are much stricter.  I would not want to participate in an completely uncensored format because it brings out the worst characteristics in people.  

Not a fan of censorship in general.

If you're a bigot, then let the whole world see it. If you're just controversial, let people discuss it. 

Personally, I'd be more akin to a big fat warning label saying "This content was flagged as inappropriate.", "This content contains unverified and possibly false information"., or "This poster has been flagged multiple times for inappropriate/controversial behaviors".

There should be some exceptions of course - ie) Contents that could potentially put someone in real danger, death threats, contents encouraging suicidal behavior, contents enomcouraging serious violence, etc...

A lot of WSO users would be much happier on Parler, I think. Have been using it for a while and, afaik, there is no censorship on there.

I dislike censorship in general and hate the sensitiveness and political correctness nowadays even more. 

HOWEVER, I think people do not get to say whatever the fuck they want. There's a place and time for everything. This is not about free speech; let's face it, nothing is "free". I think this pandemic has shown us that when we have no censorship of fake news or misinformation about anything, it causes a lot of trouble. Imagine if we have fewer conspiracy theories about Covid-19, would more people be more cautious about the pandemic and we might have a quicker economic recovery and fewer deaths? I sure would like to think so.