@crashglasshouses @futurebird I never said it was.
"Certification not censorship" was intended as a metaphor. Ideally, I'd like to know why content may be restricted to me, rather than hidden without my having a choice. Rating a movie "NC-17" isn't censorship - it's certification.
In the main, this isn't a day-to-day issue, as I wouldn't remain on a platform which I knew to not align with my values anyway.
True censorship here, would be setting fire to others' servers and data backups.
@justinionn Maybe a better term for that ideology would be "restriction not removal".
@justinionn Fwiw, I meant "restricted" in the same way that the MPAA does; not that you're entirely prevented from seeing it, but there just might be some extra hurdles you have to cross first.
@LouisIngenthron I don't know. If something is restricted from you, it *is* removed from you ("removed" in the adjective sense).
There are countless things I'd rather nobody had access to online, instead of simply being flagged... However, my less tech-savvy friends & family being directed to dip their toes into the Fediverse isn't one of those things.