The most toxic misunderstanding in the current wave of centralized social media censorship is “you’re not owed an audience.” But FB / Reddit / Twitter never gave anyone (let alone the right) an audience for free. You still have to build that yourslf, w nobody forced to follow you

So these platforms aren’t comparable to, say, a newspaper. They’re closer to a printer or a pen. Imagine of all the pens on earth were such that certain things just couldn’t be written. It actually is about freedom of speech, *not* of reach.

Social media censorship is the equivalent of Neo’s mouth being shut in the Matrix. You can’t speak to anyone, maybe murmur in some niche communities; and people can’t follow you, even if they want to

Motte: you’re not owed an audience
Bailey: you’re disallowed an audience
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy