{"id":86624,"date":"2024-04-07T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=86624"},"modified":"2024-04-07T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T20:59:11","slug":"qotd-censorship-works-but-not-the-way-the-censors-think-it-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/04\/07\/qotd-censorship-works-but-not-the-way-the-censors-think-it-does\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Censorship works, but not the way the censors think it does"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><strong>Preference Falsification<\/strong> \u2014 If people are afraid to say what they really think, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/gb\/blog\/the-gravity-weight\/202104\/what-is-preference-falsification\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they will instead lie<\/a>. Therefore, punishing speech \u2014 whether by taking offence or by threatening censorship \u2014 is ultimately a request to be deceived.<\/p>\n<p>Gurwinder Bhogal, <a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/?p=494701\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;33 concepts to survive the year&#8221;, <em>UnHerd<\/em><\/a>, 2024-01-01.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preference Falsification \u2014 If people are afraid to say what they really think, they will instead lie. Therefore, punishing speech \u2014 whether by taking offence or by threatening censorship \u2014 is ultimately a request to be deceived. Gurwinder Bhogal, &#8220;33 concepts to survive the year&#8221;, UnHerd, 2024-01-01.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,28,53,41],"tags":[459,186],"class_list":["post-86624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-censorship","tag-freedomofspeech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-mxa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88385,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86624\/revisions\/88385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}