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At this point I think most people are concerned about hate speech policies. Normal opinions are censored through these rules, and the claims of harm are rather dubious.

Why should companies be trusted to enforce elusive controls on our speech? And is it fair that tech companies act like editors and still get Section 230 liability protections as a tech platform that no editor gets?

The end result of enforcing political correctness is preference falsification, which have lots of very negative effects. This is a good video on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzjqjU2FOwA



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