Censorship is bad even when it’s done by private companies
Know what else distorts the marketplace of ideas?<p>Money.<p>Money allows for buying advertisements, essentially allowing you to buy a platform to spread your ideas.<p>Having money typically has a pretty clear bias: protecting the money of those who have it. This comes at the expense, many times, of those who do not.<p>That typically equates to conservative policies.<p>I&#x27;m not convinced that the market distortion caused by supposed bias in social media moderation is even close to the distortion created by allowing money in politics. In fact in many (not all) cases of purported bias, the true impetus for action was due to hateful or otherwise harmful speech.<p>Nor do I agree that if we disagree with state censorship, we should disagree with Facebook censorship.<p>Being thrown into the legal system with threat of monetary penalty, jailtime, etc. is worthy of much more scrutiny than speech that gets you banned from a social network.