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by gnosis 5496 days ago
"A private corporation restricting access to information isn't censorship."

  Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication
  which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or
  inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a
  government, media outlet, or other controlling body.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Censorship
3 comments

Unfortunately, the quoted text was missing a key word. Rephrased here:

"A private corporation restricting access to ITS OWN information isn't censorship."

...none of which resembles WSJ's actions here...

(And Wikipedia is hardly approaching authoritative. I'd suggest something like the OED, but given that it's another subscription service [for the online form], I guess it would fall under one of those skewed interpretations of censorship, too.)

Cool, a pedant party. Anyone bring chips?