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You are absolute right.

Censorship is...

A STRANGE GAME.

THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS

NOT TO PLAY.



Except that's not a winning move either, because (currently) you'll be heavily criticized for it as well.


It is the winning move in the long or even medium term, for the same reasons as not paying Dane-geld. Once you start censoring politically unacceptable content there will be no end of demands for you to censor more and more.


The only winning move is to censor everything.




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