What you see is those few that actually make it through, what you don't see are the numerous voices that never manage to break trough the noise because they are

What you see is those few that actually make it through, what you don't see are the numerous voices that never manage to break trough the noise because they are actively being suppressed. Take for example the case of Facebook censoring posts with the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Phan Thi Kim Phuc aka "Napalm Girl". Facebook used to censor those with the excuse of "depiction of child nudity", nobody knows how many Facebook posts were deleted over this, as it only came to light after the editor of the largest Norwegian newspaper did use his access and position at the newspaper to draw attention to the issue [0]. It's easy to hand-wave something like that away as "moderation error", but it's really not. American social media companies also censored and deleted photos depicting US torture in Iraqi prisons, like Abu Ghraib. The reasoning? It's apparently "terrorist propaganda/extremist content" [1]. [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37318031 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37318031 [1] https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/327887/pbs-the-cleaners-uncovers-secret-world-of-socia.html https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/327887/pbs-th... I really recommend tracking down the actual documentary, even to this 20+ years web user that whole thing was like a punch to the guts, quite a warning call about the state of the web and the kind of influence and power that particularly social media companies are wielding these day.