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Just to be clear here -- based on your response, you believe that the NYT refusing to publish your article is censorship?

• jevoten 5y ago
  You want a clear-cut rule that can, without any context or nuance, categorize something as "censorship" or "not censorship"? I'm afraid I don't have one. Is that what it would take before you admit anything other than a government ban is censorship? To answer your question - if it was my article? No. But suppose I wasn't a random person on the internet, but a journalist, and, after spending a lot of time investigating and writing a story on, lets say, the health risks of bovine growth hormone, my employer makes me go through 83 rewrites over 8 months, then fires me, and never airs the story [1] - is it censorship then? Or what if I was hired to make a documentary on child abuse, but my employer decided that, "as a responsible broadcaster", they would censor it (sorry, delay publishing until after the election), to not inflame racial tensions [2]? Can we call either of these "censorship", without also calling the NYT's refusal to publish a random unaffiliated nobody's arbitrary article also "censorship"? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_somatotropin#Lawsuit_against_WTVT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_somatotropin#Lawsuit_ag... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/may/20/channel4.broadcasting1 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/may/20/channel4.broad...