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Of course you're right, but it's also right to say that it's shitty when the for profit platform has more money than many small countries and insists that everyone must show their ads all the time. The money that the for profit platform makes comes from taking an obscene amount of data from its users and selling it to the companies that want to advertise.

We haven't even discussed whether the money that the for profit platform pays the content creators that drive traffic to its advertising engine is proportionate or fair. There's no discussion of this anywhere, really, since the for profit platform is so powerful that some people are literally afraid to criticize them in public. And let's not even broach the subject of whether the for profit platform might be using its users' data for things other than advertising. That would be really beyond the pale conspiracy theory type paranoia.

But you're right. It's not censorship. Only the government can do that.