OPINION:
The use of social media has spread like kudzu, an invasive vine that smothers and silences native species right here in the land of the free and the home of the brave (“A big censorship test run,” Web, Oct. 19). Some traditional sources of news and advertising have been rendered impotent by the ease and attraction of social media, the influence of which has occasioned interest from antitrust authorities.
The growth of these platforms is so pervasive that censorship of specific opinions abridges our tradition of free expression and is an anti-democratic effort to curtail free speech and keep the American people as ignorant as if the censored events had never occurred. Censorship in service to corrupt politics must be exposed and punished.
PAUL BLOUSTEIN
Cincinnati
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