> This story breaks that mold in that it involves social media censoring private conversations via DM. This isn't a new behaviour. I've experienced it persona

> This story breaks that mold in that it involves social media censoring private conversations via DM. This isn't a new behaviour. I've experienced it personally: Back in 2011, when I published the big archive of paywalled but copyright expired Jstor documents with attached manifesto facebook silently vanished any message containing a link to it or the title of it, even in private messages. One reason you haven't heard more about this behaviour is because the fact of the matter is that its extremely effective.