> Youtube is not legally bound to air any random video that was uploaded. Although, given that it's not a newspaper, but rather a massive telecom service, it s

> Youtube is not legally bound to air any random video that was uploaded. Although, given that it's not a newspaper, but rather a massive telecom service, it should be. > Censorship is when the government steps in to define allowable speech Censorship is not a technicality, and if someone is capable of doing a mass filtering of opinions, it's still censorship. And given that the government can pressure private entities into practical censorship (congress hearings on how facebook does a bad job of filtering alternative opinions on controversial topics), the technicality part is so thin that there is no real practical difference, except maybe you don't even have any legal way to challenge it, given that there is no legislation.