The New Platform They Cannot Throttle

Online censorship is just an emergency around the corner. We will have none of that.

Somewhere in a content-moderation pipeline in Menlo Park, there is a rule with my name on it. Not a ban — bans are visible, appealable, honest in their way. A throttle. For years, posts that once reached forty thousand readers began reaching four hundred. Group discussions I moderate — communities of physicians, parents, scientists who ask documented qu…