It is, but it's also necessary sometimes. If governments didn't have any power and could just be ignored or openly defied without consequences, we wouldn't have to care about what they want to censor. But they do have power, despite all our wishing that they didn't, and we can't organize a resistance to them without careful maneuvering and sometimes at least making an appearance of playing by their rules. Government censorship you can unsubscribe from is objectively better than censorship you can't. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.