This Revolver.News article was from last year August, but still relevant in the topic of censorship.
“For years, the debate over Big Tech and its threat to freedom has centered most prominently on free speech. At stake is whether or not conservatives, populists, or any free-thinking or independent-minded individual who objects to our Regime’s corrupt ruling class will be allowed to share their views on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, and even whether they will be allowed to create alternatives without being hounded out of business.”
“This battle is extremely important. But an arguably even more important fight concerns the financial ecosystem of the Internet, and on that front the situation is no less dire.”
This is a very important issue. The Digital Service Act approved by Brussels on April 23rd ostensibly aimed at curbing the power of Big Tech, but is a state-take-over of digital space. From an article in yesterday’s Financial Times by Shoshana Zuboff, Harvard Business School emeritus professor and author of 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism":
“Among the highlights of the DSA are standards that hold tech companies responsible for social harms produced by their services and stipulate assessments by independent auditors and researchers.” The PayPal alliance with ADL is exactly the kind of arrangement that the DSA mandates.
