On Tue, 23 May 2017 15:52:52 -0400
Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> wrote:

> Is this proposal itself not just a waste of valuable developer time
> in moderating, censoring & deciding who is a sheep & who is a goat ?

Its not censorship, because censorship is the practice of preventing
something from being said in entirety.

People can still voice their opinion, and we aren't going to be
suppressing it, we're just making a decision about which channels they
can say things to.

And we're giving consumers a choice whether they want to hear
everything, or hear only a subset of things, by allowing them to
subscribe to either channel.

That's no more censorship than somebody setting their social media feed
to allow no outsiders to post on it. Individuals can still post in
their own feeds, and those who want to see it can still see it.

But when it comes to *my* feed, I'm entitled to dictate what occurs in
it, without being accused of censorship.