This is a good article overall. A few notes: * Unfortunately, cancel culture has such a strong foothold in major institutions, that we may have no choice but to build our own for some time. This isn't necessarily the worst outcome, since ostracizing half the market leaves MANY business opportunities for new businesses. * Even if it is a private platform; we can still call out the private platform for behaving like a bunch of assholes, in order to encourage change or encourage people to not use it. "But private platform" is a bullshit in the context of avoiding critique. * Corporations are acting on behalf of governments, or acting as government-like entities. * While unfortunate and annoying in the short term, I think we should stop trying to save companies like Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter, and Google from themselves. If we do get them to reverse policies, and continue using them, all we're doing is rewarding them ... rather than taking our business elsewhere.