wolf359 posted at 6:50AM Thu, 27 December 2018 - #4342565

While private websites can censor images and speech, they are subject to civil laws for

which they can be sued.

Anyone can be sued in the civil courts ,as long as the complainant is willing to endure the legal costs of trying to prove material harm caused by the defendant.

When a non governmental entity enforces their arbitrary, subjective standards as to what Data/images can be uploaded to their web servers this is NOT "censorship" this is enforcement of private property rights.

The people who scream "censorship" over website/social media policies typically are having an emotional reaction to some private entity removing or blocking ,banning them from posting something they incorrectly thought that they somehow had the"right" to post.

Again, I disagree, but you don't have to take my word for it. You can look up the definition on Google. Here's the one I got from Wikipedia. Note that they mention both government and private institutions.

Censorship - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient" as determined by a government or private institution, for example, corporate censorship.