Blocking illegal content isn't censorship. It creates the technical framework and weak precedent for censorship and I agree we shouldn't do it this way, but it's not more censorship than seizing a bunch of copied DVDs at the border would be.
I’m guessing most authoritarian censorship is, in the local legal system, just seizing illegal goods.
Wether its censorship or not is more dependent on the type of information/goods, and to some extent the moral or cultural framework of the observer.
Is the suggested ban in Sweden on posting photos/videos of dead people censorship or just a reasonable way to protect relatives of e.g terrorist attacks?
That's a nonsense statement. Declaring something illegal is how governments censor.
Does the law say "you may not write bad things about the government or good things about gay people and if you do we'll block your site"? Anything blocked under that law is censorship. Does it say "you must have permission from the rightsholder to distribute any copyrighted material and if you don't we'll block your site"? Blocking under that law, whether you agree with it or not, isn't censorship.
But that is not "illegal content" - that is illegal sharing of legal content. The government making content itself illegal is much much the definition of censorship.
Does your definition depend on what is illegal? For example, if an incumbent government were able to illegalize media from opposing parties, and ISPs blocked the websites of those parties, is it filtering or censorship?
On top of that, the insane prices are regulated by the CRTC, a regulatory body controlled by the companies that are setting the prices and think this is totally fair.
To be precise, the CRTC is theorically an independent public entity. In practice however, the chairman since 2017 is Ian Scott, an ex-lobbyist who worked for ISPs and telecommunications companies. He's been caught meeting with one of our major ISPs' (Bell) then-COO, now CEO Mirko Bibic, right before overturning their own 2019 order that would have forced large ISPs to lower their wholesale rates to smaller ISPs, rolling them back to previous (much higher) 2016 values.
The CRTC is a joke.
You wouldn't say that they GPDR or anti-tracking web browser tech is censorship, would you?
> not more censorship than seizing a bunch of copied DVDs at the border would be.
If your IP is being blocked in a country due to a court order you are absolutely being censored.
> If your IP is being blocked in a country due to a court order you are absolutely being censored.