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Caprinicus | 4 years ago

Yes, a free and legal exchange that meets the definition of censorship. Many famous censorship schemes operate entirely in the private sphere. The Hays code, for instance, censored movies for decades and existed purely in contracts between movie distributors.

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tshaddox|4 years ago

The Hays code might not be the best example, since it was "self-censorship" but done in direct response to imminent threats of government censorship all over the United States. Several states had just created censorship boards in response to a Supreme Court ruling which declared that freedom of speech didn't apply to movies.