@evan@cosocial.ca Every censorship regime in American history was marketed as protection. Trump's hero President Jackson ordered mail opened while he encouraged local regimes at ports to inspect for books to "protect" from abolitionists. Trump's blueprint President Wilson ordered wires tapped to "protect" the war from labor organizers (after Germany bombed American industry while he "America First"-ed his way along the wrong side). A youth ban is simply American infrastructure in the shadow of history. Whoever holds it decides who gets protected from whom. Facebook infamously facilitated Rohingya genocide by claiming they were protecting freedom of speech (themselves really). "A person with knowledge of Facebook’s [2015] Myanmar operations was decidedly more direct than [Facebook vice president of public policy] Allen, calling the roll out of the [security] initiative 'pretty fucking stupid.'" https://www.flyingpenguin.com/can-facebooks-cso-be-held-liable-for-atrocity-crimes/