Censorship

by Lloyd Lewis For the past two years, public debate around AI has been trapped in the wrong room. People keep shouting about copyright theft, dataset purity, and whether the model saw their blog post in 2014. This is the comfortable fight, the fight everyone can understand without reshaping a worldview. But copyright is not the crisis. It is a decoy. The deeper threat, the one we’re collectively refusing to look at, is the stealth architecture of behavioural steering now baked into every lay

Under broad, catch-all frameworks, legal work about the human condition is treated as if it were dangerous, despite posing no illegal risk whatsoever.

If platforms must proactively block content that might be harmful to some users, the default will be to sanitise everything.