It only opens up highly complex moral issues in the same sense that a principle of absolute freedom of speech closes these issues by refusing to engage with the

It only opens up highly complex moral issues in the same sense that a principle of absolute freedom of speech closes these issues by refusing to engage with them at all. I'm not a principled person and my politics don't come from supporting one set of principles over another. I'm only troubled by twitter's conduct insofar as the network is controlled by a few private individuals who aren't accountable to their users. To me, it's the concentrated, unilateral power that is the issue. Because power gets abused. That's essentially what happens to concentrated power. A federated, open twitter platform would be better. Ideal, in fact. If twitter the company were merely an operator in such a network, i would not take much issue with them banning people i personally would evict from my social spheres. i mean, i agree with you in that the other examples you mentioned are all objectionable to me too and i think a moral justification for banning ISIS accounts can be extended to those cases. it doesn't matter what they say the reasoning is, the underlying mechanism is a power struggle between extremely large and grotesque power structures.