Censorship by definition can only be done by government.
Google is most cooperative with the White House.
“Censorship by definition can only be done by government.”
I would say that Google has such close ties to our government, that they are becoming one in the same.
Both Fast and Furious and Benghazi have something to do with government, don't they? Sharyl Attkisson's beef with her fellow "journalists" and their employers (evidently YouTube qualifies) would most likely go away if government got out of the media business or the business of manipulating media.
The Western Main Stream Enemedia, including You Tube and Google ARE the public relations wing of the government.
Not quite correct. Censorship can be done by anyone in authority. It’s only illegal when done by the government.
A censor is defined on dictionary.com as “any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.”
No, it may be done by government, but all that is required is an authority that can control the output, be it Google, Time/Warner, Cox, Salem, ABCCBSNBCCNN. etc.
“Censorship by definition can only be done by government.”
Do you have a source for that?
On my part, from Webster:
CENSOR, noun
1. An officer, in ancient Rome, whose business was to register the effects of the citizens, to impose taxes according to the property which each man possessed, and to inspect the manners of the citizens, with power to censure vice and immorality, by inflicting a public mark of ignominy on the offender.
2. One who is empowered to examine all manuscripts and books, before they are committed to the press, and to see that they contain nothing heretical or immoral.
3. One who is given to censure.
CENSURE, noun
1. The act of blaming or finding fault and condemning as wrong; applicable to the moral conduct, or to the works of men. When applied to persons, it is nearly equivalent to blame, reproof, reprehension, reprimand. It is an expression of disapprobation, which often implies reproof.
2. Judicial sentence; judgment that condemns. An ecclesiastical censure is a sentence of condemnation, or penalty inflicted on a member of a church for mal-conduct, by which he is deprived of the communion of the church, or prohibited from executing the sacerdotal office.
CENSURE, verb transitive
1. To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of; as, to censure a man, or his manners, or his writings.
We laugh at vanity, oftener than we censure pride.
2. To condemn by a judicial sentence, as in ecclesiastical affairs.
3. To estimate.
CENSURE, verb intransitive To judge.