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In re: No Censorshit’s list of US pro-censorship orgs

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 Due to me being unable to post a comment in response: 

What interests me about these organizations is the fact that, from a libertarian perspective, they are non-governmental entities advocating for censorship of other non-governmental entities’ disseminations of media, and are willing to use a sort of "denial of service" of the latter through boycotts, pickets and intense propaganda campaigns.

In the eyes of the most ardent anarcho-capitalist, this is still "nonviolent" pressure because the censormongers are not physically touching their targets or threatening to do so, and the targets can adapt by either acquiescing to the pressure or finding an alternative niche to which they can appeal, abandoning the censormongers; from any other perspective, however, the pro-censorship campaigns are using a threat of delegitimization in order to enshrine an existing privilege against those who are playing host to or servicing segments or markets in the populace who are not as gung-ho about the preservation of privilege. It is the act of the powerful (or those who believe or wish themselves to be powerful) delegitimizing the less-powerful for no reason other than the preservation or gaining of their privilege and the misplaced calming of their inner insecurities.

It is the sort of "chilling effects" behavior which hate groups tend to exercise on a constant basis, and the censorship advocated by these sorts of organizations tends to hardly be susceptible to resistance unless the audience can be persuaded, in the long run, to ignore the tantalization of the salacious pro-censorship campaigns.

Green libertarianism

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An ideology that has no representing organizations and an emerging body of thought, but already has its own Wikipedia article.

Hilarious.

Considering that there’s no caucus in either the U.S. Green Party or the U.S. Libertarian Party, its kinda sad that the only organization that dares combines the terms “green” and “libertarian” is the Libertarian Green National Socialist Party, also known as the Libertarian Green Nazis.

Furthermore, Greens and Libertarians tend to hold intersecting, rather than parallel, views and interests. Greens tend to ally with the social Left (i.e., disenchanted progressives from the Democratic Party); in the U.S., Libertarians are presented as being more to the political right in comparison to the Republicans (attracting political paleoconservatives, though not as many social paleoconservatives as the Constitution Party).

Thus, the Greens are more concerned with social policies, while the Libertarians tend to be more concerned with political structure. The two could mesh, except that Libertarians will likely be somewhat turned off by the Greens’ advocacy for government restrictions on environmental waste and global warming, while the Greens will likely be somewhat turned off by the Libertarians’ advocacy of “laissez faire” (let the market sort out its own problems) economical liberalism. Plus, some social conservatives in the Libertarian party will find the Greens’ advocacy of such touchy progressive issues as abortion and same-sex marriage as going against their own moral or religious beliefs, while some social liberals in the Green Party will, in turn, find the Libertarians’ advocacy of limited government intervention as far as natural disaster relief and lower-class disparities to be a bit repugnant, selfish and middle-class-centric.

There might be hope for this ideology, however:

OK, nevermind…its kinda fucked right now.

Green libertarianism, if the Wikipedia definition is something to go off of, will advocate an ecologist, socially progressive approach to the environment without much support from government and more support from a laissez faire-driven economy.

This might be an ideology that is perfectly fitting for those who focus on the promotion of Green technology in business (currently the rage in media, corporate and government outlets right now, given the current limitations forced by the lesser amount of oil and natural gas being exported in the world recently) but are also pro-lesser-government and pro-free-speech/expression, including “geeks”.

I don’t think that Green libertarianism is equatable with Green anarchism, however. Green anarchism, according to the article, focuses on the detrimental, opressive uses of technology, and is more aligned with techno-primitivism (think “Neo-Luddite“, but going way, way back); it is also very pro-animal rights/justice, and I seriously doubt that Green libertarianism, or its preceding general ideologies, have as much of a lock or medium of expression on the animal rights issue as do the Green anarchists. At best, I think that those who may be inclined toward Green libertarianism may or may not include those who are inclined toward the defense of animal rights.