>This can't be relevant. You are right that it shouldn't be relevant. I believe that in practice, it is. There are censorious free speech hating people on bot

>This can't be relevant. You are right that it shouldn't be relevant. I believe that in practice, it is. There are censorious free speech hating people on both sides, but the left-leaning ones seem to have much more power in the US in the last decade than the right-leaning ones. There are cultural issues here, and political allegiance is not irrelevant to the motivation, the rationalizations, or the power dynamics.