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What is the definition of censorship?

" Censorship, the suppression of words, images, or ideas that are "offensive," happens whenever some people succeed in imposing their personal political or moral values on others. Censorship can be carried out by the government as well as private pressure groups. Censorship by the government is unconstitutional.

In contrast, when private individuals or groups organize boycotts against stores that sell magazines of which they disapprove, their actions are protected by the First Amendment, although they can become dangerous in the extreme. Private pressure groups, not the government, promulgated and enforced the infamous Hollywood blacklists during the McCarthy period. But these private censorship campaigns are best countered by groups and individuals speaking out and organizing in defense of the threatened expression."

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient".[2][3][4] Censorship can be conducted by governments,[5] private institutions and other controlling bodies.

I and many others agree with downvoting things that are spam/plagiarized/graphic content/things not tagged NSFW that are/abuse/illegal content/calls for violence/etc.

Hive has never been censorship free to begin with, it has built in censoring via downvoting. It was touted as Censorship Resistant, but the word Censorship has taken on an incorrect meaning for some reason here and somehow people removed the "suppression" part of the definition. Censorship is when content is suppressed or deleted, it isn't just defined as deleting content.

I have no idea on who is promoting a shitcoin, I see plenty of people promoting the shitcoin that is bitcoin as decentralized on here and they get plenty of upvotes. Feel free to read through a few of my posts on

@truthforce on how bitcoin is centrally controlled mining by the Chinese Govt by a super majority, dev team was bought off by big banking and kept blocks to 1 MB to cripple the chain. or what the thing about monetizing someone's mother is all about. Can be found here @truthforce/for-the-record-again-bitcoin-is-controlled-by-bilderberg-elite-bankers-stop-shilling-bankcoin

My mom's a really mean and rude person(and my dad enables her bad behavior) who I mostly don't talk to and want nothing to do with, I wish her the best but she has mental health problems that cannot be fixed and was born that way.

Would appreciate if you would stop saying things like that on chain, it isn't a good look PR wise.