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We have different definitions of censorship. To me that is not censorship.

Censorship is making information functionality unavailable or altering it. Delete it or deliberately make it very hard to access or change it’s contents.

If you click a button or even add a message ( apart from the content ) that is not censorship. That’s why for example I don’t consider it censorship when youtube added covid messages to certain videos.

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Sounds like some mental gymnastics to me

No you just loosened the definition of censorship to fit your terrible analogy, then you insulted the GP accusing them of doing mental gymnastics. You're projecting.

But since you do want to stick to the spam filter in your email box analogy I would like to propose a solution.

Would you prefer users be able to manage block lists, filters, and such themselves instead of content being removed for all users?

Do you really prefer this large social media oligopoly to have have final say in what the masses should see? Why not let the users manage what they see?

Do you feel the same way about all subjects? Do you support the right of ISPs blocking porn for example?

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