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Is not publicizing (in a system like Facebook, designed to proactively promote and spread attention-grabbing content to any audience it can) the same thing as censorship?

In other words - I sympathize with the hard-ACLU/EFF stance on free speech. But there's a difference between government censorship and societal moderation - the latter has always existed, and the scale and automation of modern platforms in publicizing content that normally wouldn't spread so far is what's new.

Should people be aware of bad things that happen in the world? Absolutely. Is broadening the audience for disturbing videos the right way to raise awareness? Maybe not.

And if folks really feel such content needs to be published, they still have more options and reach than they did in years past even if "mainstream" places like Facebook moderate them. Granted this last point is getting a bit trickier, as people go after registrars and web hosts themselves for political reasons occasionally (i.e. if this was Cloudflare we were talking about I'd be in full agreement with you - then again Cloudflare doesn't run a recommendation service that automatically causes new unexpected content to appear in front of billions of people).