How many people read websites, PDFs, eBooks, and other modern electronic forms INSTEAD OF old-fashioned pulp books?

How many people listen to MP3s or streaming audio, rather than classic audio media like CDs, tapes, 8-tracks, and records?

Everyone accepts, without question, that these new forms of disseminating ideas, discussion, investigations, etc. are EQUIVALENT to their old-fashioned counterparts. It's 2022 after all, right?

So what does it mean when these new forms are censored? When a person can't post a Youtube video? When a person's website is taken down? Isn't that an actual book burning?

I detect a certain amount of cognitive dissonance, or doublethink, here.

At the same time, some Liberals believe that Youtube is optional, websites can/should be censored etc. -- but they themselves own few if any pulp-based books, having moved completely to digital formats. Which is it? Websites are the current year's answer to magazines, newspapers, books? If so, then censorship is the equivalent of book-burning.

Think about it: where is the forum for political discussion these days? The town square? Don't make me laugh. It's almost completely online now -- social media, news websites, forums, etc. Marking users (or their posts!) in any way due to their beliefs, etc. is THE SAME THING as forcing certain men to wear a 6-pointed star, pink triangle, or other symbol (as the nαzιs did). And the liberals certainly didn't support that program!

This meme is what got me thinking. I'm just trying to belabor the point a bit, because this meme has more profound truth in it than you might think at first glance.

I prefer to read a hard copy of a book because it's more comfortable and I can have some assurance that it hasn't been "revised" depending on the edition. With online pdfs and especially ebooks you have no assurance of this. Kindle has been known for editing older books of "heretical" content. And the same can be said of newer editions of print books too (just look at the Dr. Seuss controversy)

Indeed. Probably most books should be burnt.

All the responses so far have been "hooray for censorship" in some form.

You are ALL missing the point.

This isn't about the Catholic Church censoring error. That is a good thing. Error has no rights. What the meme in question is talking about is the exact OPPOSITE of that kind of "good censorship". We're talking about an evil regime censoring the TRUTH for nefarious reasons; censoring countless natural truths which affect families, individuals, children, and the health of millions.

Y'all are going to root for THAT?

We all recognise that censorship of the truth is evil. But the far more prevalent erroneous belief amongst Catholics and conservatives generally is the absolute belief in free speech - which played a notable part in the Commies being free to march through the institutions.

The kikes say "book burning is bad" until it's a book or other free speech about the perfidy of kikes. Then such burning is "fine, necessary, morally obligatory."