When the government does it, it’s censorship. It’s directly unconstitutional.
Somewhat related, there was a Business section front-page story about Telegram and similar encrypted services in the Paper of Record Thursday.
They did it as if it were two people talking to each other so that they could call us all the nasty names they love to call us without being accused of calling us those names. After all, it was only the fictitious people in the article calling us those names.
Might be good to get us all in one place where we can’t recruit others, one said.
OK, they gave those people names. Might be real people. Is that better or worse?