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You are evidently confused about what the word means. The systematic deletion of any content that relates to an idea that the person with power does not wish to be spoken is censorship in the same way that threatening to (probabilistically) destroy humanity is terrorism. As in, blatantly obviously - it's just what the words happen to mean.
Going around saying 'this isn't censorship' while doing it would trigger all sorts of 'crazy cult' warning bells.
Yes, the acts in question can easily be denoted by the terms "blackmail" and "censorship." And your final sentence is certainly true as well.
To avoid being called a cult, to avoid being a cult, and to avoid doing bad things generally, we should stop the definition debate and focus on whether people's behavior has been appropriate. If connotation conundrums keep you quarreling about terms, pick variables (e.g. "what EY did"=E and "what WFG precommitted to doing, and in fact did"=G) and keep talking.