Maybe there are cases where censorship brings positive results. But that is a dangerous slippery slope. Maybe there are also cases where discrimination brings some short term positive effects?
In the end I am not at all convinced that a political censoring facebook is adding something good to the world and I think in the end we will pay a higher price for it.
to conflate censorship with the current situation is bogus IMO. He isn't "being censored", he is being removed for telling his fanbase to kill people. He violated a contract he signed, plain and simple. It's now about what he says and thinks, it's about how he communicates it to his audience.
yes censorship may be too strong of a word. The problem is that these rules are not enforced in other cases and it always ends up being a case by case decision. This means that there is room for interpretation and thus the possibility to influence public opinion.
What is really confusing to me is that all platforms have taken this step at the same time. It means that it is very probable that they have coordinated it which means that the decision was not independently based on the terms of service.
I totally agree, the way things are enforced is out of whack, without a doubt. The "collusion" I think is funny, people are claiming it's like a sign of the end of the world or something, but I don't really think so.