The problem is that this administration and their ilk have incompetently misinterpreted 'censorship' to mean 'not letting random strangers use your private property to publish things you don't want them to.'

The only way "an applicant was responsible for, or complicit in, censorship or attempted censorship in the United States" would be if they were an employee of the US government and they somehow violated US law to enact censorship.

To review: censorship is when the government doesn't allow you to say things with your printing press. Censorship is not when private parties don't let you use their printing press.

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cobbal 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censor#dictionary...

> censor (verb): to examine in order to suppress (see suppress sense 2) or delete anything considered objectionable.

> also: to suppress or delete as objectionable

Government censorship is a very notable class of censorship, but the word has a broader meaning.

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mullingitover 4 hours ago | parent [-]

In the context of the Constitution, government censorship is the only thing that the United States cares about.

If we valued banning all censorship we'd make laws banning that. We don't: we value private property and free speech instead. Taking the rights of private parties to control what they publish tramples both of those rights. It's not complicated: you have a right to own your 'press' and do whatever you want with it. You don't have a right to someone else's press.

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GoblinSlayer 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Censorship is free speech?

	▲	meheleventyone 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No they are saying choosing what to publish or not is part of private property rights.

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mitthrowaway2 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If I was on a telephone call which selectively declined to transmit certain words or topics to the receiving party, I would consider that a form of censorship, even if it wasn't the government doing it.

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richrichardsson 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Just use a different system that didn't do that, it's your choice.

	▲	mitthrowaway2 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		To that extent, government censorship isn't really censorship either then? You can just move to a different country that doesn't censor you.