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The fact that all parties are allowed to associate with whomever they want does not determine whether Young is engaging in attempted censorship. If the Catholi
by rhino369 5y ago
The fact that all parties are allowed to associate with whomever they want does not determine whether Young is engaging in attempted censorship.
If the Catholic Church organized a boycott of Amazon unless decided to de-platform controversial authors that is a clear example of censorship.
- sanderjd 5y agoMaybe so, but if the Catholic church said "we're not publishing our books on Amazon because they publish controversial authors" that would be totally fine. I honestly don't have trouble with referring to this as "attempted censorship" except that lots of people have this connotation of "censorship" as being always and definitionally bad, whereas I think that should mostly just apply when governments do it by law rather then when private entities do it by choice. Because of this nuance, I think the word "censorship" generates more heat than light. I may have less trouble with it if people consistently distinguished between "private censorship" and "legal censorship" (or something like that).