They sure switched real damn fast from "it's a private company, it's not censorship, they can do what they want" to "give all control over to the government, we'll decide what you peasants can say."
Remember, nearly all of those "it's a private company" crap was about companies that take (at minimum) tens of thousands in grants and tax breaks from the government. Twitter in years gone by has gotten hundreds of thousands from governments. The idea that these are private companies while profiteering off public funds is nothing but another in the many lies that leftists and statists produce.
Oh, I'm not saying the "private company" argument was ever legitimate, just that we went real quickly from 'let them handle it, the government is not engaging in censorship' (which, yes, was of course a lie), to 'these companies can't be trusted, the government needs complete control.'
They sure switched real damn fast from "it's a private company, it's not censorship, they can do what they want" to "give all control over to the government, we'll decide what you peasants can say."
Remember, nearly all of those "it's a private company" crap was about companies that take (at minimum) tens of thousands in grants and tax breaks from the government. Twitter in years gone by has gotten hundreds of thousands from governments. The idea that these are private companies while profiteering off public funds is nothing but another in the many lies that leftists and statists produce.
Oh, I'm not saying the "private company" argument was ever legitimate, just that we went real quickly from 'let them handle it, the government is not engaging in censorship' (which, yes, was of course a lie), to 'these companies can't be trusted, the government needs complete control.'