We are all familiar with the standard form of censorship–simply preventing the dissemination of ideas that are not approved.
But that is only one of several forms that censorship can take. I have occasionally been outright censored online–on Twitter 1.0, I was temporarily suspended because the censors didn’t like what I said, and I was forced to delete the posts. It happened within a day or two of my starting at Hot Air, and since the posts were old, I acceded to their demand.
I don’t for a moment think that it was coincidental that the suspension didn’t happen when the posts were put up; it was clearly, if not provably, related to my new job. It was a shot across the bow.
The type of censorship I often deal with today is a bit more subtle but, in many ways, more insidious: demonetization by advertising platforms. If my colleagues or I write certain things, the…
