Even if it is, it doesn't make sense for me. Pirate streams changing the… framing? The author tried to be sarcastic, but it didn't really work out.
I think they are writing how news censorship can be used to edit opinions, but changed news to sports streams.
Like how we all download hundreds of gigabytes of Linux ISOs.
I appreciate the attempt, but I'm still dumbfounded by that comment. After all, pirate streams are 1:1 copy of the official ones, and news censorship isn't about seeding newspaper scans…