A sufficiently large chunk of the media industry can censor expression as much as a state can (if not more), so it’s not absurd to talk about this as censorship.
That’s why I find it annoying and unhelpful on HBO’s part. One the one hand it’s transparent pandering for PR purposes, and on the other, it’s grist to the mill of pro-slavery assholes. Now we get to talk about how they’re victims of censorship, instead of talking about how their victims are victims of them.
If this was HBO taking a real stand, they would have spray-painted “black lives matter” across key scenes, without sending a press release to Breitbart.
