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Re:Google and Bing to deprecate piracy websites by gruez on Monday February 20, 2017 @11:08AM (#13688368)
>Edit: For what its worth, these are private companies after all. So 'censorship' in terms of a legal or constitutional definition under freedom of speech, would not apply here anyway.

The article never claimed it was unconstitutional

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Re:Google and Bing to deprecate piracy websites by no_wizard on Monday February 20, 2017 @11:13AM (#13688421)
Nope. it did not. I was simply pre-emptively shoring up my argument for those who may throw out a strict legal or constitutional definition of censorship.

Just trying to get ahead of misconceptions, or admittedly, what I believe to be common misconceptions.

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