[semimojo]

Can you be certain it is not?

I guess not 100% but it doesn't make any sense to me why they would.

Even so that's a long way from saying:

You can't have "private" censorship without government's exerting pressure to force the "private" companies to do what they want.

Here I've always been told it was the fault of the liberal Silicon Valley elites but now I guess they're being forced into it.

How do you propose that we liberate Zuckerberg, Dorsey, Brin, etc. from the hold of the Chinese?

[DiogenesLamp]

Here I've always been told it was the fault of the liberal Silicon Valley elites but now I guess they're being forced into it.

Both are likely true. Have you not noticed how communist sycophants will pretend it's their own ideas when it's really what they have been told to think?

How do you propose that we liberate Zuckerberg, Dorsey, Brin, etc. from the hold of the Chinese?

It would seem to me that if it was *AGAINST THE F***ING LAW TO CENSOR AMERICANS*, then it would be pretty hard for the Chinese or the Iranians, or the Europeans to force American companies to censor Americans.

If the Chinese said "censor criticism of the Chinese government", Google would have to tell them, "It is against American law for us to do this thing you want us to do."

So now what does China do? They could ban all American communications companies from China and create their own, but the point is they wouldn't be tampering with public opinion, and thereby our elections, by controlling communications back here.