> Social media is the KING KONG of censorship. Downvotes that hide your reply. Post removal. Automated post removal. Secret forbidden word lists. Banning. Shado

> Social media is the KING KONG of censorship. Downvotes that hide your reply. Post removal. Automated post removal. Secret forbidden word lists. Banning. Shadowbanning. Blocking. We have so much censorship now that we need to create a new language to talk about it. Social media cannot censor you. Social media, or any content publishing platform, can only moderate content. Only a government - which has the power to legislate arrests or fines - has the power to censor you. Demanding that the content publisher publish the content you have submitted is akin to demanding the New York Times publish your letter to the editor. Both are unreasonable requests. Unless a content platform is an absolute natural monopoly, there should be no reason to legislate that it must publish all content submitted to it. Forcing a content publisher to publish all content is akin to forcing it to not publish content; both are a removal of freedom from the content publisher. If your posts submitted to a content publisher are removed, consider spinning up your own content publishing platform - many are available free online, or even pay for the printing of your views in pamphlets or books. If your government does not imprison you for your views, then you are not being censored.