But for the record, since consistent propriety is the subject of the subthread: as a left-leaning liberal, I hereby declare that I think coercing Twitter to remove content for political reasons is equally as bad as doing the same to Facebook.

[1] Not least because the entity doing the coercing was not the government, which was run by Biden's opponent.

For what's worth, I've actually changed my mind about this. I was originally fine with the government encouraging Twitter to take down pandemic related stuff, but after seeing what Trump has done... well, in hindsight, I think the Biden administration should have stayed out of Twitter moderation, just as the Trump administration should stay out of Facebook moderation.

I still think there is a difference in severity between what Biden did and what Trump is doing, but that's beside the point. The current administration has really demonstrated for me why free speech is so important. We should not compromise on that principle, even when it seems logical in the short term.

Which ones we pick to be super hardline about says much about us.

But they aren't enforcing the law, they are often taking highly illegal actions. If you've been only listening to Fox News, you wouldn't know it otherwise. But it's well documented what they've been up to. And it has caused widespread misery and none of these agents are accountable.

I mean, you clearly don't want law enforcement to be accountable for their actions. That's quite the take you've got there.