Private Citizens Can't Censor!

Private citizens can't use physical force or bring about by force or threats. They can't censor or suppress anyone’s views or publications because the only one that can do so is the govenrment. Censorship is a concept that pertains only to governmental action.The line of demarcation between freedom of speech and freedom of action is established by the ban on the initiation of physical force.Private citizens don't have the right to parade through the public streets or to obstruct public thoroughfares. Of course private citizens have the right of assembly on their own property, and on the property of their family or their friends. Nobody in the world has the right to take control over the streets. The streets are only for passage and are free for everyone. Censorship is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a man or suppress a publication; only the government can do so. The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right not to agree, and not to listen. Censorship forbids the discussion of some specific subjects or ideas such as sex, religion or criticism of government officials. Censorship is ethical if a newspaper refuses to employ or publish writers whose ideas are diametrically opposed to its policy or if businessmen refuse to advertise in a magazine that denounces, insults and smears them .

(D.B.)