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Important point. To reiterate, the culture of companies change.



Culture in general changes. A company is not an island. Employees move around, tech moves around. Society at large gets comfortable with censorship when its use spreads.

We're all looking for ways to censor spammers or belligerents from internet forums. It could easily start there and spread to other areas.


That already happened, eg, COVID policies on social media and YouTube.

We had a breakdown in our consensus mechanism — because the government partnered with corporations to censor rather than allow public debate.

The nation is still bitterly divided.




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