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Originally Posted by Brillopad
To limit access is censorship. It hasn’t limited access to other papers so it is categorically censorship. They haven’t banned it, too controversial, but limited access to it with the hope perhaps they can ‘encourage’ customers to read something a bit more to their liking. Quite pathetic really.
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This would suggest that they do stock or have stocked every newspaper available, which is obviously nonsense. Have they been "limiting access" to the dozens of publications that have never been stocked? The second part (encourage / force customers to read what they want them to read) is again nonsense because
hardly anyone buys newspapers on trains anyway.
Yes it's a publicity stunt, that's pretty obvious, but again... Private enterprise. They can sell what they want, advertise what they want, and pull whatever publicity stunt they want. I'm amazed how many people are all for free market capitalism when it suits them, and then dead against it when it doesn't.