So we are talking about requests to delay publishing in soft back what was already freely available in hardback. Requests not to give publicity to a fundraiser for guerrilla fighters against an ally (No one has the power to deny access to British media)
Polite, unenforcible requests.
To describe that as "a nation where press censorship was enforced at the point of a gun " is dishonest and unworthy.

There was a reason why soldiers did not like to be photographed.
The IRA had a policy of identifying individuals, tracking them down and executing them in their homes in front of their families.
Remember, UDR soldiers were local men and many died in those terrible circumstances.

Soldiers might threaten to confiscate film, but they were not allowed to fire warning shots in such circumstances.