What are you taking about? Do you think all articles journalists write for a newspaper are published? There are probably dozens of articles not making it online or to print each edition.

No, you don’t have a god given right to have your article published on any newspaper you’d like to

Yhea wtf. A private newspaper deciding to not publish an article is not censorship.
The article is publicly available in Germany https://hyperallergic.com/1050197/what-i-wish-i-had-known-about-germany-earlier/

And other newspaper are writing about it:
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur-vergnuegen/kunst/ai-weiwei-und-das-zeit-magazin-vom-bequemen-mainstream-der-sich-nichts-traut-li.10002953

I don’t think you can compare software from like 20 years ago to software today.

Things got way more complicated and applications require a lot more work

Because software needs to be maintained. Well at least most software that has a subscription model is maintained and gets regular updates. People don’t work for free, you have to pay them