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> Blocking illegal content isn't censorship Does your definition depend on what is illegal? For example, if an incumbent government were able to illegalize med

• goosedragons 4y ago
  It's censorship if they've blocked every way or the only way to view some peice of media. It's filtering if you can still see it after plunking down $19.95 or whatever.
  • evandale 4y ago
    I wish you could get sports legally in Canada for $19.95. Last I checked you need something like a $60 cable membership to even get the ability to pay $20 for sports packages and even that won't get you much. On top of that, the insane prices are regulated by the CRTC, a regulatory body controlled by the companies that are setting the prices and think this is totally fair.
    • folkrav 4y ago
      > a regulatory body controlled by the companies that are setting the prices To be precise, the CRTC is theorically an independent public entity. In practice however, the chairman since 2017 is Ian Scott, an ex-lobbyist who worked for ISPs and telecommunications companies. He's been caught meeting with one of our major ISPs' (Bell) then-COO, now CEO Mirko Bibic, right before overturning their own 2019 order that would have forced large ISPs to lower their wholesale rates to smaller ISPs, rolling them back to previous (much higher) 2016 values. The CRTC is a joke.
• lupire 4y ago
  a better way to say it is if the content creator doesn't want you to receive it, blocking it isn't "censorship". You wouldn't say that they GPDR or anti-tracking web browser tech is censorship, would you?