I feel like when you’re equating “me blocking your tweets from my timeline” to “me shooting you”, there’s clearly not any shared ground here. The two are clearl

I feel like when you’re equating “me blocking your tweets from my timeline” to “me shooting you”, there’s clearly not any shared ground here. The two are clearly not comparable. Me blocking your tweets does not remove your agency, or your freedom of expression, and it doesn’t kill you. China doesn’t have free speech, because in China the government will punish you for speaking against them. That’s not “de facto censorship”, it’s just censorship. Which is where the government punishes you for your speech. There’s no such thing as a “corporate authority”. Twitter doesn’t send you to a reeducation camp if you tweet dumb things. They just don’t have to carry your content on their site. The analog would be if the Chinese government ran a big blog and they’d only let you blog there if you said stuff they agreed with.