Jim and the admins here routinely censor freepers and freeper comments.
Do you think that is wrong?
I've never seen an FR post censored for conveying factual information or for countering an official agenda item.
I have seen potty mouthed posts and abbusive troll posts zotted. Not the same thing as letting government and big Pharma stooges come in and do the censoring.
Free Republic is a small club with a membership that has to be approved by the owners. It is stated forthrightly that it is a place for conservative commentary. It is also relatively small by the standards of facebook or twitter or tik tok or google, etc.
Free Republic is not a public forum and does not advertise itself as a public forum.
Facebook has over a billion users and it has a significant impact in the everyday lives of Americans. It *IS* a large scale communications company, like the telephone company.
We didn't tolerate the phone company shutting off service for clients who expressed opinions the phone company didn't like, and so we should not tolerate such behavior for any other communications company.