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And only accepted speech is allowed. No longer your own private blog space to say whatever you wanted..

• tomjakubowski 6y ago
  Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter have had content moderation from the beginning. They're just like web forums. They were never "private blog spaces to say whatever you wanted". There's been a "Report" button on all these sites for years. Even Myspace routinely banned users and groups over content issues. Here's one from 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20111011112224/http://www.secularstudents.org/node/1933 https://web.archive.org/web/20111011112224/http://www.secula...
  • dionian 6y ago
    Its nothing like it was today. It wasn't part and parcel of politics and elections like it is today. People weren't being ruined by woke mobs
  • zoobab 6y ago
    Even Hackernews has censored entire threads.
    • throwaway3699 6y ago
      The scale really changes things though...
  • sn_master 6y ago
    I was talking about the Internet as a whole turning into these walled gardens rather than older times where blogs were common. Even in case of FB, there wasn't as much crackdown on political groups as its happening now.