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by LeifCarrotson 1737 days ago
Censorship has strong connotations of authoritarian regimes with political motivations. When they're doing it in peacetime with (I believe) a genuine goal to benefit the user by removing spam messages or by making abbreviated URLs like 'spot.xyz' clickable (even if that parser is broken, written by someone who only expected .com/.net/.org), it's just called parsing.

In much the same way, propaganda is just advertising with negative connotations, and a cult is just a religion with negative connotations. Calling all advertising propaganda or all religious people cultists is not likely to win people to your cause.