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...private censorship in order to avoid government censorship - which won't happen because First Amendment so the entire argument is garbage.

Sounds like the CCA and Hayes Code. 
It's been done before. If those who own the entirety of content production, distribution, and exhibition all decide that pingus need to be banned...well pingu content share suffers.
Things are better now because of the distributed nature of the internet, but there is still a major capability for content throttling rather beyond what we have now. China is looked upon by a larger number than I'd like as an example and not a warning.
Also: Screw Ziad Reslin

2 Best comment at that totalitarian TechCrunch article: "Some things are obviously hate speech and should be filtered out, e.g., encouraging participants in political debates to "bring a gun” when opponents only "bring a knife,” (Barrack Obama), or decrying "Dumbass f***ing white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants,” (Sarah Jeong of the NY Times). Oh, you don’t think this is hate speech? Well I don’t think Alex Jones asserting odd opinions about what’s true and what’s not is hate speech. So many kinds of speech to hate… and so few centralized, coordinated, iron-clad sets of regulations for people to follow! What’s an autocrat to do?"
The rest of the commenters aren't really having any of it, either, which is a nice change from Techdirt.

3 "NBN to take FttC to MDUs

By supplying eight- and 16-port DPUs, NBN will be able to extend its fibre-to-the-curb network to multi-dwelling units, NetComm Wireless has announced."
Reading those two sentences is like watching a turbo-encabulator video.
Will the new comment editor have a "paste text only (and lose formatting)" option, btw?