“Already done” it was when most people were on social media. It’s a self-supporting censorship machine requiring no government intervention. Censorship is usually defined as government censorship, and a private business on their platform has right to do whatever they want about speech. And that’s fine when those private businesses are physical diners, rented spaces for events and so on. But if there were 2 or 3 owners of all the spaces you can rent to have a meeting, and those would have policy on speech, you’d have effective non-governmental censorship IRL. Same with the Internet.
Then platform owners do that censorship simply because they can and it’s convenient too.
Whatever governments order them comes much later and doesn’t change much. We already have censorship for 10-15 years, affecting all we do.
“Already done” it was when most people were on social media. It’s a self-supporting censorship machine requiring no government intervention. Censorship is usually defined as government censorship, and a private business on their platform has right to do whatever they want about speech. And that’s fine when those private businesses are physical diners, rented spaces for events and so on. But if there were 2 or 3 owners of all the spaces you can rent to have a meeting, and those would have policy on speech, you’d have effective non-governmental censorship IRL. Same with the Internet.
Then platform owners do that censorship simply because they can and it’s convenient too.
Whatever governments order them comes much later and doesn’t change much. We already have censorship for 10-15 years, affecting all we do.