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"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.

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So would you be okay if a company “illegally” used and distributed GPL software?

Sure, as long as the same rules applied to their own works. That's the whole motivation behind copyleft licenses: to turn copyright against itself. Without copyright there would be no need for copyleft, the GPL included.

No. That doesn't follow from my comment. What I am saying is that a government's making laws against distribution of software is not censorship.

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