Moderation is okay when it properly adjusts signal-to-noise ratio of discussion.
Censorship is about suppressing opinions which fall out of Overton's window, which is not okay, as all it does is to enforce status quo.
There was a good blogpost by Ex-reddit engineers about it where the idea was to treat it as signal which you cannot understand, and your core purpose as moderation(from automated PoV) is to adjust the signal to noise ratio without being able to comprehend/read the underlying data.
A bit hypocritical of them, looking at how reddit's moderation works.
Frankly i'm also against private censorship in case of social media - as it is basically outsourced government censorship.
The problem is that there are regulations passed to centralize requirements on censorship, it helps incumbents by making it too burdensome for new companies to enter the market. Existing corporations publicly state their desire to let the government be the arbiter. It's a delicate balance and governments prefer to act slowly to ensure the right outcome.
Censorship is about suppressing opinions which fall out of Overton's window, which is not okay, as all it does is to enforce status quo.
There was a good blogpost by Ex-reddit engineers about it where the idea was to treat it as signal which you cannot understand, and your core purpose as moderation(from automated PoV) is to adjust the signal to noise ratio without being able to comprehend/read the underlying data.
A bit hypocritical of them, looking at how reddit's moderation works.
Frankly i'm also against private censorship in case of social media - as it is basically outsourced government censorship.