There are different laws. Enforcing laws that limit freedom of information is censorship, be it net filtering or burning books. Enforcing copyright laws is not - you wouldn't call customs intercepting a truck of illegally copied DVDs censorship.
It's not about who does it, it's about why they do it. Is blocking illegal-due-to-copyright content a slippery slope to blocking illegal-because-opressive-regime-said-so content? Yes. Is "slippery slope" a bad argument? Also yes.
I agree having court-enforced IP block lists controlled by private companies is bad. But that isn't censorship, it's just stupid.
> you wouldn't call customs intercepting a truck of illegally copied DVDs censorship
I might, depends on the context. Copyright laws can indeed result in censorship. Let's say those DVDs have an additional commentary track.
> But that isn't censorship, it's just stupid.
So when your IP address gets block in Canada for a year, regardless of what content or speech it was engaged in amd without any attempt to verify that you indeed were sharing content out of copyright, you aren't being censored? Come on.
It's not about who does it, it's about why they do it. Is blocking illegal-due-to-copyright content a slippery slope to blocking illegal-because-opressive-regime-said-so content? Yes. Is "slippery slope" a bad argument? Also yes.
I agree having court-enforced IP block lists controlled by private companies is bad. But that isn't censorship, it's just stupid.