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It starts censoring topics that are illegal, then topics that aren't family friendly and finally, it will end censoring point of view and free speech.

Its 1984 all over.

Im not an anarchist however, if something is illegal then go ahead and cut it but, censoring without a legal cause is a crime.

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Social media platforms are owned by privately held companies. Their moderation is up to their discretion. Sure there's a larger conversation about their ubiquity and how social media posts relate to free speech, but as things work now in the US, Facebook isn't breaking any rules by censoring anything for the most part.

If you want to collect pictures of horrible crap and start a website, as long as it's not illegal you can host it on your own.

Facebook is a private company and it has the right to regulate speech in its digital properties (at least it seems the case in the US). You also are not bound to it, theoretically, so you can go elsewhere and say what you wanna say. I write theoretically because Facebook is so pervasive where I live that we cannot simply ignore it.

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