[LewisVerstappen]

> I just don't understand the alternative

Well, one alternative would be that they have to decouple their front-end and back-end and provide open APIs to their backend (posts/tweets, friends lists, etc.).

Facebook/Twitter can moderate/censor whatever they want on their own front-ends, but they can't remove anything from the backend.

People/companies can build alternative front-end apps that access the fb/twitter graphs and censor in a different way - so that users have an alternative.

[pjc50]

See above: _not allowed_ to remove porn, spam, doxxing, or death threats without a court order (of what jurisdiction?) => immediate chaos

(Note that FOSTA/SESTA already imposes a proactive legal obligation to censor within the US, and overrides s230)