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>>feross+(OP)
XKCD 1357 is how old? And yet people continue to get it wrong.

It’s not censorship unless the government itself is doing the censorship and making people face criminal consequences for disobeying.

If a private entity is doing it, even at the request of a government, it’s not censorship or a violation of free speech unless they were going to face legal consequences for ignoring the government’s request.

https://xkcd.com/1357/

>>Aprech+6U
That’s just changing the definition of censorship to muddle the argument. The idea that censorship can only be done by governments (not even by private entities on behest of government) is to make the definition so narrow as to be effectively useless. Even in China most of the censorship is done by “private” companies.

While the XKCD explains that your “United States 1st amendment rights” are not be violated by non-governmental censorship, it doesn’t change the fact it is censorship. Everyone is in favor of censorship (like Randall) so long as only things they disagree with are censored.