The most insidious thing social platforms do is secretly ban and filter content to give the impression it is published when it is not. In any other situation, d

The most insidious thing social platforms do is secretly ban and filter content to give the impression it is published when it is not. In any other situation, de-ranking, "shadow banning," and other opaque filtering while giving the impression of being public would be fraud. It's designed to steal the posters time and effort. Their platform their rules, except it could become difficult to justify using a platform to actively defraud people of their time and effort. Attracting peoples content with the promise of publicity only to sabotage it is straight bait and switch. I'm sure it's all very narrowly legal, but post-election lawsuits in 2022 will be ones to watch. I'm glad this stuff is coming out, but there are viable youtube alternatives for sharing video. If they want stuff off their platform, just say so, and people will use new platforms. I still believe this behaviour by social media companies will yield new platforms. The kids learning to code now are realizing there is a network of people using "censorship," to actively manage a simulation of a world with a manufactured consensus they find acceptable. We're barely a decade past the winner-take-all pattern of platforms, and a totally new dominant platform is less than 5 years away. I'm still optimistic that these platforms are the AOL, Compuserve, and Myspace of today. This too shall pass.