i have no problem with censorship, so long as my government is not involved, and people do not attempt to eliminate my freedom to develop my own platforms to express my own point of view.
if i publish a newspaper, it's going to have an editorial slant. if i pay to operate an internet forum, there will be philosophes that i do not want to see represented there. if i build out a social media platform, there will be terms of service that i will select, and will enforce.
censorship in the private sector is everywhere. if you don't lik eit, then in a free society you are free to start up your own speakers corner and say what you like. but your speech is not granted a free megaphone on someone else's platform.
the restrictions on speech in america have to do with public safety, libel, and the constitutional restriction of the government from infringing on speech that doesn't violate tjhose societal safeguards. i thibnk those are generally good rules for anybody to follow, not just people living under the american system.
banning somebody from a private platform is just fine, if he is still able to open up his own platform. to continue with the donald as an example, he violated just about everybody's terms of service, and th esocial media is still enoug hof a wild west that people just didn't know how to deal with it, and made mistakes. they are correcting them now, and taking heat for not figuring it out earlier.
but just like the early internet freely marketed images of child rape under "freedom of speech" that have been subsequently forbidden as the medium matured, so social media platforms are finally figuring out that making exceptions to hate speech or advocacy of violence is a bad idea, even when th eactor is a head of state.
donald has not been silenced, he can post on any social media platform that he can use his own money to create, under his own editorial guidelines. he just hasn't needed to do that work himself so far, and he's whining about other people not letting him tak advantage of their work.
subject to the customary laws about public safety and libel, he's not restricted anywhere.
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