[unethical_ban]

You'll find I agree that the concept of silently spam filtering on TLD of a link is something that pisses me off.

You'll also find that calling this "censorship" as if it has to do with government action, or that it has to do with the content of the specific site, is ludicrous.

This is incompetence, not malice.

[teddyh]

Censorship is far from not limited to government action. I see this misconception a lot, and I believe it comes from Americans misinterpreting their first amendment.

[unethical_ban]

I figured that might come up, but censorship whether govt. or not is seen as "oppression due to opinion".

Over-aggressive TLD spam filtering is just bad logic from infosec employees.

[teddyh]

Censorship is not limited to “oppression due to opinion”, it can be done for any reason.

[unethical_ban]

Well there's where we disagree - on the common usage and context of the word.

[teddyh]

If someone omits or deletes people’s texts for racist reasons, that is still censorship, even though it is not done for the opinions of the people who are being censored.