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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_censorship

> Political censorship exists when a government attempts to conceal, fake, distort, or falsify information that its citizens receive by suppressing or crowding out political news that the public might receive through news outlets. In the absence of neutral and objective information, people will be unable to dissent with the government or political party in charge. The term also extends to the systematic suppression of views that are contrary to those of the government in power.

I'm against political censorship most of all. I don't enjoy the current state of things in which private organizations are being utilized to spread misinformation that originated from a prominent voice of the government, and are faced with the difficult choice of adopting organizational censorship in order to combat political censorship.



This attempt to reframe speech that you dislike (that you feel "crowds out" speech that you see as more important) as censorship, in an attempt to justify actual censorship of that speech, is just what I call orwellian. It's like saying that "words are violence" to justify actual violence.

To crowd something out means "to push, move, or force (something or someone) out of a place or situation by filling its space". Youtube videos do not crowd out other youtube videos, there's enough space on youtube for everyone.




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