SIlicon Valley firms halted spread of Steven Sotloff beheading video

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Silicon Valley firms halted spread of Steven Sotloff beheading video Media theguardian.com

How do you all feel about this? Is it censorship? I am less interested in watching the beheading (which, to my knowledge isn't shown anyways). I am more interested in hearing Sotloff speak, as well as the IS figure.

 

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Story here:

Silicon Valley firms halted spread of Steven Sotloff beheading video Media theguardian.com

How do you all feel about this? Is it censorship? I am less interested in watching the beheading (which, to my knowledge isn't shown anyways). I am more interested in hearing Sotloff speak, as well as the IS figure.

Not censorship, nope.

The First Amendment gives those Silicon Valley firms the right to restrict and edit content of which they don't approve or with which they disagree.

It would be a First Amendment issue if say, those Silicon Valley firms owned a municipal jurisdiction, and they mandated that no one within that municipality stand in front of city hall with an anti-ISIS poster.