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by kortilla 2100 days ago
> bookstore refusing to carry books by certain authors is in no way censorship

It’s fucking textbook definition of censorship.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censorship

Are you conflating “government censorship” with censorship?

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What do you think the alternative is? You want the government to mandate that every book store carries all books? Book stores have a right to curate their selection as they see fit in exactly the same way that authors have a right to write what they see fit.
It’s censorship, I didn’t make any judgments about when censorship should be allowed/encouraged. It’s just the literal definition of censorship and you’re being defensive because you think it’s a bad thing.