Censorship is bad even when it’s done by private companies
I have a wide view of what &#x27;censorship&#x27; is, and I include spam filtering in the definition. For example, a while ago I saw an advert for some kind of erection-causing pill on a forum discussing C++. If the forum moderators remove such a post, they make the forum more efficient by saving other users (who are looking for C++ content) from themselves having to filter out irrelevant information &#x2F; a sales pitch.<p>I also see far too many &#x27;work from home&#x27; adverts in discussions in the Independent newspaper&#x27;s comment section (on unrelated articles), and if they took a more censorious approach to such comments then the comment section would improve.<p>To an extent I support censorship, and according to what I believe censorship to be, almost everyone else supports it.<p>If this very comment had been about some unrelated topic, such as giving an opinion about who to blame or not blame for problems in the Middle East, it would be right for the comment to be censored from this discussion, and it would be censorship from a private company, censorship of a political viewpoint no less.