By deciding what is, and is not, allowed to be discussed in a review,by removing discussion of social context, and saying that only thewords on the page count, Goodreads is ignoring fifty years of developmentof literary criticism, and is engaging in censorship. Votes: 7
And that's the most horrible thing about censorship: To avoid falling afoul of the censors, we question ourselves and censor ourselves and make a big deal out of things in our heads. We do the work of the control freaks for them, out of a desire to avoid them. Votes: 4
There was something so unutterably ridiculous about the sight of a US company deleting posts accusing it of censorship that many other people began to protest. Votes: 1