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Re:Restricted by YouTube, Gun Enthusiasts Are Taking Their V... by Laaas on Friday March 23, 2018 @09:32AM (#16657874)
How is it not censorship? It is legal, and they're not violating anything, but it is still censorship, because they are censoring something. It doesn't have to be illegal for it to be censorship.
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Re:Restricted by YouTube, Gun Enthusiasts Are Taking Their V... by _jal on Friday March 23, 2018 @10:53AM (#16658751)
It is a definitional thing. We're talking about law; definitions are important. Here is a somewhat useful starting point:

https://www.aclu.org/other/what-censorship

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Re:Restricted by YouTube, Gun Enthusiasts Are Taking Their V... by jacksmith21006 on Friday March 23, 2018 @10:08AM (#16658283)
Because Google is a private company is why it is NOT censorship.
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Re:Restricted by YouTube, Gun Enthusiasts Are Taking Their V... by wlesieutre on Friday March 23, 2018 @11:01AM (#16658830)
The word "censor" doesn't exclusively apply to government actions though.
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Re:Restricted by YouTube, Gun Enthusiasts Are Taking Their V... by optimuspaul on Friday March 23, 2018 @10:50AM (#16658720)
yeah I don't think that the definition of censorship has any caveats to it to indicate the actor must be a public entity.
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Re:Restricted by YouTube, Gun Enthusiasts Are Taking Their V... by waterphone on Friday March 23, 2018 @10:27AM (#16658483)
It's censorship, it's just legal censorship because it's not the government doing it.
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Re:Restricted by YouTube, Gun Enthusiasts Are Taking Their V... by chillwaves on Friday March 23, 2018 @10:35AM (#16658571)
That's not what censorship means.
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Re:Restricted by YouTube, Gun Enthusiasts Are Taking Their V... by wlesieutre on Friday March 23, 2018 @11:04AM (#16658854)
Here's what Merriam Webster says censorship means:

>1 a : the institution, system, or practice of censoring

>"They oppose government censorship."

The example use calls out government censorship as a specific type of censorship. If "censorship" meant "the government censoring things" you would not need to specify "government censorship" in that sentence.

Yes, I know that dictionary definitions are not necessarily the final word on what something means, but they're absolutely correct here. It is a broad word and it is widely used in other contexts. People other than the government can censor things.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_censorship

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