[throwaway3699]

> People don't get information from their friends, television, Twitter, blogs, news websites, email, or radio?

Friendly reminder that conversations with friends & family come via big tech nowadays, because associating in person is illegal. FB and Twitter are well known for blocking links to mainstream blogs/websites they don't like, even in private conversation!

> Also, I am someone who doesn't have a multi-million person audience on FB, and doesn't have the budget to pay for one: am I being censored? Not everyone on FB has that kind of reach - if "being heard by millions of people" is an important criteria, then I am being censored by HN, reddit, and every other comment board where I don't have high status standing / reach.

Censorship is the freedom for all ideas to have a level playing field. Tilting the scales is the antithesis.

[edmundsauto]

Does a level playing field include distribution to an audience? If not, then I don’t see how the definition would include big tech shutting down an account. If it does include distribution, then it’s so broad a definition as to not be useful (“the tv networks are censoring me because they won’t let me go on and spew hate speech”)