i'm not performing censorship by selecting which files i download from the internet, am i?
> "Criteria for inclusion" and "censorship" are the exact same thing, the only difference between them is how the speaker feels about it.
yes, this is very important, which is exactly why a library like this selecting which works to include is not censorship. now if people intentionally submitted their own works and the library tried to hide or deny the existence of those requests, now that would be censorship
i think state libraries are in a slightly different situation. it is definitely fuzzy though
> i'm not performing censorship by selecting which files i download from the internet, am i?
Yes, because that's an irrelevant activity to this topic.
> yes, this is very important, which is exactly why a library like this selecting which works to include is not censorship.
At least in contemporary liberal culture, words like "censorship" and "ban" are frequently used to label "criteria for inclusion" that the speaker disagrees with.
> now if people intentionally submitted their own works and the library tried to hide or deny the existence of those requests, now that would be censorship
That's one kind of censorship, but not the only kind (see above).
So if the State of Florida sets a criteria for inclusion for it's library collections of "not gay," then it's not censorship in your mind?
"Criteria for inclusion" and "censorship" are the exact same thing, the only difference between them is how the speaker feels about it.