Aren't fact-checkers another semantic for censors?
My favorite is this one, quoted directly from Snopes:
> Hillary Clinton used a hammer to smash her mobile phone during an FBI investigation.
> What's True: One of Hillary Clinton's aides told the FBI that on two occasions he disposed of her unwanted mobile devices by breaking or hammering them.
> What's False: Hillary Clinton did not personally destroy her phone with a hammer.
Source: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hillary-clinton-smash-phon...
It's the worst because the people that do it know they're doing it and they know they're doing it to hide the truth in a weaselly-worded way.
A regular censor can remove content for any reason, most commonly because it violates community standards or is politically inconvenient for the people in power.
This distinction is important so calling fact checkers a censor is potentially misleading.
After reading and hearing what Americans think about censorship, I am forced to conclude a significant portion of the population believes that -- so long as someone doesn't look like a childhood disney villain -- they're probably a noble person with noble goals and noble results.
Censoring usually completely removes the statement with usually no justification (perhaps national security or whatever).
Not saying this is the case here, but in general these days (mostly?) right wingers completely mistake what censorship means. It seems like someone ignored my opinion is the new standard on censorship.
You should create a separate twitter, and tweet moderately conservative ideas, and see what happens to that user, and your experience.
I have the unique life perspective of changing political parties from Hillary Clinton (Elected DNC Delegate) -> Libertarian based on my life experience in San Francisco, and personal perception that my original thoughts may have been wrong.
The way I'm treated on Twitter is entirely different. My comments, while not angry or aggressive, or extreme, find themselves hidden below the fold. When just a few years ago they were highlighted and never hidden. Trends I'm not interested in are suggested, I provide feedback to the AI and they are still suggested. I hide terms and they are highlighted. It is very Amorphous, but I suspect there is a machine learning categorization behind the scenes. It's more than coincidence.