Re:YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
by happytoexplain on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @12:50PM
(#20106361)
I disagree, and could reasonably take offense at the notion that the only possible reason I might disagree is that I'm confused. I don't think this is censorship by its common, colloquial definition. It is indeed censorship if you take a broader, more literal definition - in which case private forums deleting hateful, illegal, or simply forum-rule-breaking comments also counts as censorship, and such a broad definition is simply pedantic and not really useful for conversation.
It is a private company doing the censorship but this is 100% in the definition of censorship.