Those people saluting the band of Trump's Facebook and Twitter account will not be so happy when they are the ones silenced. I fully agree with Snowden on this.
If they censored me...I wouldn’t care because it’s a free company? Like an ISP blocking content they disagree with is wrong because I’m not paying them to censor content for me. But Facebook? I’m not paying them at all so I don’t care what they do?
When something's free, the product is you.
Dude, it’s not the same thing. The furries aren’t quite literally and openly calling for people to execute sitting members of government. No one wants to ban the furries. Or the save the whales guys. Or the church of satan. No one cares what any of those guys do or say. It’s just the nazis. We have decided as a society that nazis shouldn’t be allowed to speak. No, we’re not going to listen to them because they have nothing to add. Their opinions do not matter. Pretending like they do and wrapping it up in a free speech argument is how we got trump in the first place.
That time is now over.
I don’t think the answer to that should be “a few people at large companies that are, at best, kept at bay by rich people buying or selling the company’s shares”.
Apple (and Twitter, in closing Trump’s account) act as judge, jury and executioner, and don’t allow appeals.
In all seriousness, there’s a balance that can be had. We ought not surrender any freedoms enthusiastically. Once gone, they will be gone forever.