Censorship is a broad thing, usually mandated by a government. Individuals or even companies making decisions for their own platforms is not the same thing.
Yes it is a broad thing, and yes government and private censorship are not the same, but they are both censorship, at least according to the wikipedia and ACLU definitions [1,2].
And given the volume of posts censored and users banned by social media, where most public debate happens these days, most censorship is now by private companies.
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Censorship is a broad thing, usually mandated by a government. Individuals or even companies making decisions for their own platforms is not the same thing.
Yes it is a broad thing, and yes government and private censorship are not the same, but they are both censorship, at least according to the wikipedia and ACLU definitions [1,2].
And given the volume of posts censored and users banned by social media, where most public debate happens these days, most censorship is now by private companies.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
[2] https://www.aclu.org/documents/what-censorship