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But you had all these rightwing weirdos complaining they were being censored because "the algorithm" didn't promote their weird little ideas enough!
Back when.
So tweaking the algorithm is quite literally censorship!
Not that this "free-speech absolutist" has proven particularly true to his word.
I strongly agree with the point made in the linked article that censorship is when a sender wants to send something, the receiver wants to receive it, but a third party (government, social media platform, whoever) keeps them from doing so.
If I want to see "weird little ideas of rightwing weirdos" (or of leftwing weirdos or any others), I should be allowed to. If I don't, I shouldn't have to.