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Originally Posted by anamardoll
To me, "censorship" is stopping someone from saying what they want to say by infringing on their rights, liberty, and freedom...
To me, "censorship" is not stopping supporting people in their art..
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Let us simplify it: On one side there are two authors who write not for the sake of the art but for their living, on the other side there are you, but not only one Ana, but thousands or a million, so that their actions will have an impact.
So, both authors publish a book and to push the sellings they give an interview and in this example the interviews are not related to the books.
Writer A says something run-of-the-mill, writer B something affronting that is beyond the borders of political correctness.
And purely because of these interviews you decide to buy the book of writer A and never that of writer B.
So you don't measure them by their deeds/accomplishments (=books, writing skills...) but only by their words.
Of course, you're not actively censuring B, you don't say that he's not allowed to express his opinion, but what you're doing has the same effect - it comes down to: if B tells this opinion that I don't like then he has to starve because I won't buy his book.
I'm not against voting with one's wallet, and I'm still not decided if the freedom of speech should be limitless. I'm just saying when you vote with your wallet then you punish someone for his opinions and you're contradicting the idea of the freedom of speech.