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Re:YouTube Advertiser Meltdown: An Opportunity for Startups by enraged_camel on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:35AM (#14095313)
If the government censors you, you have other choices as well. You can publish your content in locations outside your government's jurisdiction.

So basically your "imprisonment" qualification on the definition of censorship is completely arbitrary and does not stand up to critical scrutiny.

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Re:YouTube Advertiser Meltdown: An Opportunity for Startups by AnOscelot on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @03:33AM (#14095571)
If your government censors you, and you break the censorship in some way, you put your own personal freedom and economic status at risk. In many countries, you put your own life at risk as well.

If Google takes down my video, and I publish it elsewhere, there's no real risk of anything. Maybe I'll lose my Google account if the video was particularly heinous, but that's about as far as it goes.

The imprisonment qualification is a very real difference.

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