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Declining to sell a book in a store isn’t “censorship”. The author could easily host the book on their own website. If the government forces them to take it dow
by lsy 6y ago
Declining to sell a book in a store isn’t “censorship”. The author could easily host the book on their own website. If the government forces them to take it down, then it’s censorship.
- wuliwong 6y agoThis is technically incorrect. You might argue that censorship is commonly understood to mean specifically government censorship. But censorship by itself does not have to refer to the actions of the state.
- nabla9 6y agoYou have it completely backwards :) It's is technically correct. Legally and conceptually censorship is defined only as censorship done by the government. Censorship is commonly understood to mean any kind of censoring or removing of content.
- nickff 6y agoGoogle Dictionary agrees with you, but Merriam-Webster, Brittanica and Wikipedia disagree.
- HideousKojima 6y agoEven the Google dictionary result doesn't say it's exclusive to governmental action
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoI'm not selling that book either. Am I censoring it too?
- wuliwong 6y agoI don't believe the definition applies to individuals.
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- dominotw 6y agoyea but this argument has been done to death a million times. There were a million threads about facebook just this week.