Why do people think Facebook, Twitter and Google etc are the public property of their users? Because it is a platform with public access they mistakenly view it as a public service taking umbrage if their account is suspended or deleted due to content issues and whine they are being censored forgetting only the state has such powers.
Is a publisher who decides to no longer publish an author censoring them? Is a company that hires out buildings for venues censoring an act they refuse to host deeming it hostile or counter to their business ethos? Is a newspaper that refuses to carryarticles from a particular columnist censoring them?These are not state actors but privately owned and run companies with fully protected property rights.
Facebook etc invariably do not charge for the use of their platforms and yet get endless vilification from ungrateful users with serious entitlement issues.Whether it be a physical location or one in virtual reality property rights and intellectual rights still apply and the principle holds no matter what some concrete bound mentalities assert to the contrary.
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