[DoreenMichele]

I'm a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and rape. I routinely speak on such topics in order to educate people and try to advocate for survivors, among other things.

I am routinely accused of being "a rape apologist."

I have no idea if Twitter is really a bastion of online free speech or not. But I do know that if you do anything meaningful in this world, people will drag you for it and one of the most common attacks is to claim you are doing the exact opposite of your intentions, whether that is true or not.

[sneak]

Twitter censors both what you are allowed to post (far in excess of what is legally prohibited), but, more importantly (and the reason I left after a dozen years on the platform) they censor search, too, deciding for themselves that they know better than you regarding what you should be allowed to read.

Twitter espousing free expression is sort of like Google espousing privacy. It's farce, plain and simple.