what's wrong with censorship—thoughts

Social media companies have the responsibility to protect their users from hateful and possibly violent content, which sometimes involves removing certain types of posts. If someone posts a picture of themselves with a gun and a caption that tags a celebrity or someone and threatens them, that should be removed and the police or FBI should be alerted immediately. However, tech CEOs themselves should not be the ones deciding what should be allowed on the platforms they own. There should always be a dedicated moderation team that has the ability to communicate with one another and decide as a group what is and is not acceptable for the platform to present to its users. When platforms remove or suppress content, it is often done with the intention to protect users. Unfortunately, some content that is hidden or removed may not actually be harmful, such as the fundraising efforts by "White Dudes for Kamala" that Elon Musk had removed from his nazi hellscape version of Twitter, which he calls X. I believe that this type of censorship is biased and unhelpful. If it were, for example, misleading people and saying that Kamala was promoting free houses for everyone or something then yes it should have been removed and people should have been notified that was not true-- but that is not what happened. During the pandemic, when platforms removed vaccine and treatment content, it was initially helpful, because it was trying to protect people from false information. However, it became so polarized that people no longer believed the CDC, whose entire job was to research and present vaccines and cures to the masses. Because Zuckerberg removed posts suggesting non-scientific treatment options, he made it so that people were more likely to form conspiracy theories surrounding them. If he had, say, simply left them up and allowed people to discuss but also put out a statement debunking them, that would not have caused as much turmoil as what actually happened. People should, in theory, be allowed to "talk amongst [themselves]" (Myers) if they please, but there should also be a warning of some kind if information is inflammatory or incorrect put out by the platform if they believe that it is necessary to do so.