Perhaps its one of those things that are hard to define. [1] But that doesn't mean clear cases don't exist.
> Is it censorship that the rules of chess say you can't poke someone's queen off the board? We're trying to play a particular game here.
No, but it is clearly political censorship if you only apply the unwritten and secret "rules" of the game to a particular political faction. Also, banning entire domain names is definitely heavy-handed.
I remember some words that succinctly express something I often observe. To paraphrase:
> Left-wing and Right-wing are terms which make a lot of people falsely believe that they disagree with each other.
It is worth trying to find common ground with people “on the other side”.
I mostly agree. I argued in an article [1] that it's only censorship if the author of the content is not told about the action taken against the content.
These days though, mods and platforms will generally argue that they're being transparent by telling you that it happens. When it happens is another story altogether that is often not shared.
[1] https://www.removednews.com/p/twitters-throttling-of-what-is...