markhollis

A commonly held opinion among the reactions to the social media censorship, is the following "Facebook and Twitter are private companies, they do want they want."

An interesting question to ask is whether Facebook, Twitter (and consorts) are really private companies.

In many areas, they have grown into branches of government. They are being used to do the 'dirty work'. They enforce hate speech legislation, made by government organisations. They sell information to intelligence services. They communicate together about 'streamlined approaches'.

A private company is led by profit motives. Is that really the case nowadays with Facebook and Twitter? If profit was the most important thing, would they ban all those people?

What do you think?