> with Facebook it's a private company doing the censoring and there's no issue with that Whether the company is private or not is immaterial. What matters is

> with Facebook it's a private company doing the censoring and there's no issue with that Whether the company is private or not is immaterial. What matters is its scale, and how much you can actually avoid it. Facebook is not easily avoided. I personally went under significant social pressure to get an account and actually use it. Getting out had a measurable cost (not being aware of events that mattered to me). That's not too bad, but even then I'm cheating: my SO has an account, and I regularly profit from that. Same for YouTube: they have a near monopoly on most western audiences. If they block something, that's near censorship. Next to it, most alternatives might as well not exist at all.