Comment by howunfortunate
8 hours ago
> articles authored by or on behalf of a company, versus user generated content.
It gives me both a sense of schadenfreude but also a deep depression to watch the shoe on the other foot.
It was only a couple years ago that the talking point was "It's a private company!!", used to defend mass censorship on old Twitter, defend delisting of Parler on app stores, etc.
It was wrong then and it’s wrong now.
Content moderation is not censorship, and Nitter has no right to to use accounts to scrape and republish information that X has chosen to gate.
Content moderation is censorship (sometimes more egregious than others, but all ultimately censorship).
It's just not government censorship.
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