>Searching for and writing about topics online deemed inappropriate are known to authorities within a second thanks to cooperating companies. This is already h

>Searching for and writing about topics online deemed inappropriate are known to authorities within a second thanks to cooperating companies. This is already happening. I used to mock conservatives and free-speech advocates who claimed that Twitter, Reddit, Facebook etc. were censoring speech unecessarily. I'm pretty far to the left, and obviously I think racist and sexist harassment are bad things...however, these platforms have automated any features that allow users to report "problematic" posts or comments, which makes it VERY easy for people to abuse and mass-report anything they disagree with. Why would I trust a corporation to correctly determine whether a comment is abusive, or just an opposing point of view? What does it mean when corporations are in charge of determining what speech is offensive, and effectively control the "acceptable" range of discourse? In the UK a man was investigated by the police for retweeting an offensive limerick - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/24/man-investigated-police-retweeting-transgender-limerick/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/24/man-investigated... I don't really agree with what he retweeted, but it still seems kind of ridiculous to investigate someone for a tweet that isn't threatening or violent.