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That doesn't make it censorship, just badly implemented filtering. A sledgehammer with a broken handle to crack a nut.


That is silly sementic wiggling in am attempt to refedine a word. "Censorship" isn't a just a word that only applies to bad government controls of speech, but any control, even if warranted.

If your IP is being blocked in a country due to a court order you are absolutely being censored.


  > If your IP is being blocked in a country due to a court order you are absolutely being censored. 
Doubly so when taken shared hosting into consideration. I've still got old websites running with who-knows-what-else on old hosting accounts, all those sites sharing an IP address.




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