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Private companies engage in censorship only when they have a controlling interest on a form of communication, and that is the sole purview of monopolies.
by dleslie 6y ago
Private companies engage in censorship only when they have a controlling interest on a form of communication, and that is the sole purview of monopolies.
- stale2002 6y ago> and that is the sole purview of monopolies. No actually. According to the wikipedia definition on censorship, there is no requirement to be a monopoly, in order for a private business to engage in censorship. Instead, according to the actual definition of censorship, censorship is any sort of "suppression of speech, public communication, or other information", and private, non-monopolies can absolutely engage in censorship. You are simply incorrect about what the definition of censorship is. The actual definitions, that are all over the place, do not require a monopoly.
- dleslie 6y agoA company cannot fully suppress communications if it does not control the communications medium. There is no company which has a total monopoly on any form of communications in the USA. Material is not effectively made unavailable without total suppression.