[AlexMax]

> What that signals to me is that practically they should be considered a speech platform

I'm not really sure what problem you're solving here. The social space is too big to moderate effectively, so hamstringing what little power the company chooses to exercise over its own space is supposed to somehow make things better? I don't see it.

[dcow]

You seem to lack empathy for people who's content is being removed from these platforms. It may be difficult to see it and therefor find empathy, today, because these people seem radical to you--I get it. But keep in mind, no so many years ago, it was homosexuals, then trans people, etc., who were attacked and silenced and who's lives and livelihoods were threatened. We have to continue to protect peoples' ability to express themselves universally as technology evolves and provide platforms where they can't be bullied and destroyed by a riled up mob or institutionally silenced and de-platformed for dirty content. It's about supporting a voice and a platform for the counter-culture of today so that it may be liberated tomorrow just as the miscreants of yesterday are seen in a new light today. That is the problem we're solving.

[AlexMax]

> You seem to lack empathy for people who's content is being removed from these platforms.

I lack empathy not because I disagree with their politics, but because "getting booted out of a social space on the internet" seems like a strange non-problem.

Keep in mind that Twitter moderation is a joke no matter what side of the aisle you're on, and people leave not only because they got banned, or somebody they liked got banned, but also because of the perception that the moderators are asleep at the wheel and are too slow to take action - if they ever do.

Thing is, this is the internet. There are other sites out there. Most of them are accessible from typing something in your web browser. If there is a social space out there whose moderation you find more agreeable, why would you hang out someplace you're not welcome?

> We have to continue to protect peoples' ability to express themselves universally as technology evolves and provide platforms where they can't be bullied and destroyed by a riled up mob or institutionally silenced and de-platformed for dirty content.

You're not going to find that platform on Twitter. But you shouldn't have expected to find it on corporate-owned advertiser-friendly Twitter in the first place. The revolution will not be televised; brought to you by Xerox in four parts without commercial interruptions.