> If you are worried about a private company "censoring" your speech, you should take this as a sign that you've allowed said company to get far too big. That

> If you are worried about a private company "censoring" your speech, you should take this as a sign that you've allowed said company to get far too big. That makes sense, but what if many private companies agree to censor something? It doesn't have to be a shady deal in a smoke filled room, maybe just everyone depends on advertisers, and advertisers don't want to be associated with some message. I think the right way is creating and popularizing spaces for speech that don't lend themselves to censorship, but somehow mitigate the problems of non-censorship, such as astroturfing. The internet is a wonderful foundation for such spaces, we're very lucky, but there's a lot of work to do.