If Private Platforms Use Government Guidelines to Police Content, is that State Censorship? As with financial services, military contracting, environmental protection, and other fields, the phenomenon of regulatory capture is demonstrably real in the pharmaceutical world.

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My working definition of fascism has always been:

The marriage of the state and the corporate sector such that private corporate owners explicitly support the goals of the state, and the leadership in the state in return supports the monopoly of ownership in the hands of those owners.

Those of you with more investigation in this area will likely have places where you wish to "correct" that formulation in some way, but is the basic idea wrong? Serious question. I'm welcome to correction.