This is nonsense, and borderline malicious.
Privacy used to be the default mode for human existence. You had to go out of your way to attract enough interest, positive or negative, to have that privacy curtailed, even in minor ways.
In the information age, privacy is liberty. Unless you take specific action to prevent it, all of your information is surveilled.
Encryption allows you to protect the content of your communications from intrusion. Ephemerality removes the traces of your communications to prevent future intrusion. Those two features reset human communication to the state of nature, allowing people the room to think and communicate difficult things in a context of trust.
When people are monitored, they limit themselves to thoughts and discussions that are socially acceptable. This leads to groupthink, siloing people within a collectively imagined social ideal which is readily shaped by the ones doing the surveillance. The outrage mobs, public ridicule, and notorious cancelations are communicated far and wide, and the narratives conveyed about the context of those moralistic social displays are the levers of power being moved to influence social momentum. Marketing, politics, religion, social movements, and all manner of ideologies use the violation of privacy to amplify their reach and influence without the benefit of rational discussion and tests of validity that would have prevented such memes from gaining traction in the past.
Authoritarianism seeks the destruction of privacy. Whether it's a dictatorship, a cult, an invasive workplace, or platform, they degrade privacy as much as they can in order to exploit the resulting loss of individual liberty and agency.
So no, censorship is real. Cryptography is a tool that sets people in their proper place as sovereign human beings. Privacy, security, and anonymity give people the ability to speak on equal footing with any group or organization or fellow human.
By using apps and platforms and services that don't respect privacy, you're willingly accepting a second class status, ceding your right to express ideas that don't conform.
Buzz words my ass.