Well, on the definition of censorship, I think the Right has gone way too far in the opposite direction. And they apply their standard hypocritically.

“Censorship,” on the right, apparently means getting any kind of pushback that makes them feel uncomfortable. That’s why this whole “weird” phenomenon has been so upsetting to the Right. They hate the idea that they’re not the silent majority anymore.

But then they turn around and call liberals “snowflakes” and whine about trigger warnings and safe spaces. Conservative media is the ultimate safe space!

Zuckerberg was wrong to take down scientifically rigorous articles arguing in favor of the lab leak hypothesis, but as I argued in “Will the European Union Ban X?” and “How AI Can Protect Us From Fake News,” there are reliable methodologies to identify various forms of disinformation that are politically neutral, and social media would do well to adopt them. You can’t have a forum for the genuine exchange of ideas if you can’t see through the muck of shit to any actual rational thought.

The alternative is social media becomes that episode of Its Always Sunny, Charlie Goes America All Over Everybody’s Ass.