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by briffle 1664 days ago
Exactly, change the word blacklist to censor, and then it seems wrong.
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But that's not censorship. Google is not a government, and no one's speech is being suppressed by filtering out literal copies of something and leaving the original.
Censorship can be conducted by private or public entities.

https://www.aclu.org/other/what-censorship

Change the flag button on this post to censor and I bet people wouldn’t click it. But people want some level of censorship, so long as they convince themselves they’re not against free speech.
Blacklisting by a private entity is not censorship. It's even sillier when you consider that what's being removed are copies and the original content is still there.