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Originally posted by Peetster
The first rule of real censorship is don't talk about censorship.
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That's all true. The main issue about yelling "censorship!" is that it's only censorship if the government does it. For anyone else, it's "editing".
There's an important difference here. Halx et al are not bound to allow anything at all. They're perfectly welcome, this being a private system, to withdraw and/or kick out anything and anyone for any reason at all, such as "It's Thursday" or "That shirt is NASTY!" or even "I
like that shirt, so I'll remove it since I'm not worthy." That's the way life works in private life.
The reason it's really only bad/nasty/evil/wrong for The Government to do similar things is that the government is supposed to be there
for us. We pay for it, its purpose is, at least in theory, to do our will. For it to censor is a way for it to gain the upper hand, which would not be a good thing.
I'm not explaining this well.
(SecretMethod70: hey, my post could be used as a strawman, sure. No biggie.)