In certain situations, blocking, or denying access to a platform, etc., can in effect be censorship. People get confused about this. 1/
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Imagine, for example, if all political debate in a country were de facto conducted on Facebook, and, because of your views, you were... 2/
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denied access to Facebook. In this situation, even if you're free to shout your views from a street corner, you are in effect... 3/
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being censored, because you're being denied a voice in the only forum where it could make a difference. Basically... 4/
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if you are denied access to significant elements of what Habermas calls the public sphere - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_sphere … - you're being censored.
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