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> I don't get the comparison with newspapers,

The point is not newspapers "per se".

The point is private entity, as opposed to public state. As I stated clearly, freedom of speech is a principle applied upon public law, not private law. Therefore, "censorship" is something the state does, not something private parts do among themselves.

Are anti-spam filters "censorship"? No, because they're implemented by private citizens to benefit other private citizens.



Censorship is not just the sole domain of a government. Private entities are perfectly capable of participating in it. You're conflating two distinct ideas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_censorship


> Therefore, "censorship" is something the state does, not something private parts do among themselves.

Censorship is not defined with respect to the right of free speech; public censorship may be where those two issues collide, but it's not the only kind of censorship.




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