Re: Censorship in America, Part II

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents montreal qc ca>]

> > See, now this is actually censorship. 
> It's odious, stupid, and pointless, but it's not censorship because
> NetSol is a corporation, not a government.

That doesn't make it not censorship.  It just makes it not
*constitutionally-forbidden* censorship.  In the USA, private entities
are allowed, in general, to censor whatever they want - and, indeed, in
some cases, that's their job (eg, the editor of a newspaper, when
deciding what stories to run, is censoring the ones turned down).

There are some cases where private entites are not allowed to censor
(common carriers come to mind, though I'm not actually sure they
qualify), but they are the exceptions, not the rule.

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