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Re:GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the ... by pkinsky on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @11:42AM (#9969349)
>The term isn't even usually applied in contexts like this one. This here is usually called moderation or content policy or editorial standards etc. And most people don't consider it a bad thing.

This is false. Facebook's ban on photos showing female nipples is constantly referred to as censorship.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lina-esco/facebook-war-on-nipp...

Re:GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the ... by zurn on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @02:42PM (#9970699)
I definitely agree there is such a thing as censorship by non-government actors, but Facebook plays a very different role from Github. There's also a lot of uproar about Facebook and Twitter doing too little to weed out objectionable things.

But it's still qualitatively different from government censorship, which is imposed on third party media.