[Caprinicus]

Yes, a free and legal exchange that meets the definition of censorship. Many famous censorship schemes operate entirely in the private sphere. The Hays code, for instance, censored movies for decades and existed purely in contracts between movie distributors.

[tshaddox]

The Hays code might not be the best example, since it was "self-censorship" but done in direct response to imminent threats of government censorship all over the United States. Several states had just created censorship boards in response to a Supreme Court ruling which declared that freedom of speech didn't apply to movies.

[waterhouse]

That might actually make it a good example, if Greenwald is right here: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-escalates-pressure...

[tshaddox]

But again, it’s weird to see this painted in partisan terms. How short is our memory? I would have sworn just last year that those tech companies were painted as strict censors of right-wing content who needed to be strongly regulated. Apparently now it has switched again? But of course this is just partisans playing the victim (at least until someone can show evidence of some actual partisan bias in their censorship/moderation).