Is it censorship when dang calls you out and threatens a ban for starting a flamewar? Is it censorship when a spammer gets banned? What about gmail's spam filter? Is that automated censorship?
Now it is the state mandating censorship. Can we call a spade a spade?
I feel like that is bad reasoning. If the state is a democratic one, wouldn't a democratically elected censor/moderator (pick your framing, it's the same thing) be better than one that is accountable only to investors?
You can't escape the state. If they don't like what you post they'll beat you up and put you behind bars. Not good.
Regarding your "democratically appointed censor" point, freedom of speech means that I should not be a slave to whatever the status quo is.
> You can't escape the state.
You can, by moving countries. I've done it four times in my life.
Out of curiosities, what are those four countries and did you also acquire their citizenship?
Okay sure, but this was specifically qualified with a "If the state is a democratic one".
> Out of curiosities, what are those four countries and did you also acquire their citizenship?
I'd rather not dox myself too much, but they were two EU countries, the US and the UK. As a union citizen, I can move freely between countries in the EU; I went to the US on a specialty worker visa. I never acquired any citizenships other than my country of birth.