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- 28 de Dic, 2014
It depends. If it's about a website deleting comments based on ideology, they go Full Ayn Rand and claim the *only* thing capable of censorship is the government. But if capitalism doesn't go their way, it's part of the "cis white supremacist capitalist patriarchy" which is pretty much the worst thing ever. Doublethink is in full force here.
By definition, censorship is governmental. More casually, "censorship" is used as a term for any regulation of speech, no matter who is doing it. Such corporate "censorship" can be bad for society, but generally represents a different kind of threat.
Most people who urge censorship call it something else, of course, and it's always good when applied to their enemies, and always terrible when applied to them.
Curiously, those most vehemently in support of "hate speech" laws are usually, themselves, incredibly hateful assholes.