Something weird is definitely going on. I'd normally chalk it up to a powermad hubris that seems to be common among technocrats, but this is the latest example of a corporation voluntarily providing politically motivated non-profits the ability to control their platforms. This has been going on for a while on financial networks - in the pursuit of the elusive, but totally real, neonazi resurgence. Paypal recently announced such a "partnership". Microsoft has allowed some UK based group to censor their search results for a long time now. That was originally sold under the banner of "bbbut the children!", but the only reason I know about it is because they started blacklisting sites that archived video related to the war in Syria.
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Something weird is definitely going on. I'd normally chalk it up to a powermad hubris that seems to be common among technocrats, but this is the latest example of a corporation voluntarily providing politically motivated non-profits the ability to control their platforms. This has been going on for a while on financial networks - in the pursuit of the elusive, but totally real, neonazi resurgence. Paypal recently announced such a "partnership". Microsoft has allowed some UK based group to censor their search results for a long time now. That was originally sold under the banner of "bbbut the children!", but the only reason I know about it is because they started blacklisting sites that archived video related to the war in Syria.