The core Enlightenment principle supporting free speech is that the best counter to a bad idea is a good idea, with both openly expressible and debatable. This stabilizes society by making everyone think and engage. To censor is to divide and polarize.
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I feel their policy of censoring ideas they disagree with is fundamentally cowardly, revealing their belief that their readers are incompetent to evaluate the merit of ideas freely presented to them. This belief is incompatible with democracy itself.
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That assumes the users of social media are competent in fact checking and also that information/debates are being put out in good faith. Banning people for disagreeing with you is a bit different then trying to reign in floods of abuse and deliberate misinformation. 1/2
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