and I thought censorship is a thing of the past
HA! Very naive. Censorship is alive and well as long as it benefits someone. There are always variations of censorship (removing racist and child pornographic websites are forms of censorship if you really want get down to it). We justify the censorship according to our own needs and morales (for right or wrong).

do you think they are justifying what they did???
Of course they are. Nothing done today is done without some type of marketing spin that says "look at how good/righteous we are in what we do". There may in fact be a legitimate concern (we don't have enough information and all sides of it to make a valid judgement, IMO) but then again, there may not and this may have just been a reason to shut down a dissenting voice when certain nations need their people to hear what they want them to hear.