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On the Internet, censorship happens not by having too little information, but too much information in which it is difficult to find what you want.
We all have only so much time to spend on the Internet and so necessarily get a filtered experience of everything that happens on the Internet.
Are you saying that not being exposed to things you don't want is censorship?
No, that is not what I'm saying, mostly because I don't think it is true. I'm saying that nowadays there is nearly all kinds of information one can think of somewhere out there on the Internet; but if it is only in relatively obscure places and you don't know where to look for it, then it is still de facto censored by having too much other information out there.
I dont think that can be called censorship as it is not deliberate suppression of info, it's just being drowned out or ignored.