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Evo said:But it's not "censorship".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
A great deal of the criticism surrounds the fact that entire websites can be taken offline before the owners have an opportunity to repeal, and the burden of proof rests largely on them. The fear is, one, that this makes it trivially easy for copyright holders to step beyond the bounds of their copyright and suppress mention of their work arbitrarily, and two, that the system can be easily exploited by anyone to take any website off the air simply by signing up and posting a copyrighted image.
It provides a legal mechanism for private citizens and corporate entities to engage in censorship.