Western Censorship vs USSR

So you agree with the widespread censorship in China, the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, etc...?

As someone born in Russia, I find the comparison between the "censorship" described here, and the totalitarian censorship wrought by Russia and China, to be downright offensive. Nobody gets black-bagged in the middle of the night for talking smack about the ruling powers in the US. The fact that I hear constant whining about "censorship" by the very people being "censored" on mainstream social media just points to how little of it there actually is.

It's really sad to see a country famous for its liberal traditions, sleepwalk back into the sort of draconian censorship that we thought was a relic from darker times.

I have an honest question: many people here are not angry because they are not allowed to talk, but because a platform allows other opinions to voice. You guys never thought that one day, and this day will come, the side you don't like will be in power, and they may censor you like hell? They may brand your legitimate dissent as outlandishly immoral or hate speech or whatever, and therefore censor you, cancel you, or even jail you? And downvote me however you like, but please don't thi

In oppressive regimes like USSR (as if there are or were any regimes "like USSR") (where censorship was manual) there always were loopholes to avoid censorship and convey messages you wanted to. In the West (as well as in the East) today the platforms don't allow for any loopholes, or even when such loopholes are found, they're being censored out very quickly.

Indeed. I grew up in the USSR so I am pretty good with the whole "don't talk about this over the phone/in earshot of somebody you don't trust/outside your kitchen" game. However, the rules in the later USSR were clear as the forbidden topics have not changed every week. In the modern USA anything can become political in an instant and there is no way this is sustainable. If J.K. Rowling can get cancelled then nobody is safe. It's more resembling the early USSR,

During the Cold War, the primary thing that distinguished the US side from the USSR side was that, while speech by USSR people and people sympathetic to the USSR (like, say, CPUSA) was published in the US, publishing speech sympathetic to the US in the USSR would get you arrested.It seems like the US has become what the USSR was: companies who publish speech from people in Iran or Crimea are now violating the law by doing so. Moreover, in cases like this one, already-published material is be

The Soviet Union cracked down on typewriters but couldn’t stop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat. These people will undoubtedly find something similar. Actual suppression makes any conspiracy theory more credible.

From a country which lived under an authoritative regime and who knows what censorship will lead to.

Do I understand correctly, the land of the free has appointed a bunch of authoritarians who push for censorship like in the peak of communism, the very thing America tried to fight for years? How is that not a treason? Why those people are not locked up?