'If you flag or penalise some results, you effectively censor them'. You don’t have to delete something to make it disappear. When I raised this point at the Workshop on Digital Misinformation in April this year, it was met with a comment about this approach not being 'true censorship' because it doesn’t intentionally censor a particular group or ideology. The circumstances didn’t allow for a meaningful discussion at the time so I couldn’t respond (I was just an audience member asking a question after a presentation), but the technical definitions of censorship are largely unhelpful to the communities who feel like their voices are being suppressed by incredibly powerful multi-national companies who act as gate-keepers to all information on the Internet.
Shane Greenup, How to End Google’s Monopoly – Shane Greenup – Medium
