I've said this too many times, but Facebook only did political censorship because they were extorted into doing political censorship, so "it's not censorship be

I've said this too many times, but Facebook only did political censorship because they were extorted into doing political censorship, so "it's not censorship because they're a private company," whatever you believe about the principle, is factually wrong. Facebook only wants to censor stories about Facebook, just like Musk is only interested in censoring stories about Musk. This is the natural state of these companies. They were never actually interested in being moral arbiters for the government, they were just used as proxies because of their self-interest, through the leverage that the people who regulate them and pay them have over them.