There has been a lot of news, activity, and arguments about the role of Social Media lately.
One of the big things to come out of these arguments, especially when it concerns censorship, control of access, and ownership of data is that current social media applications and systems are primarily owned by single entities and they control all of those things. Sure, they should be clearly stating how they may censor, how they may suppress or promote, and what they will do with your personal data. There is nothing to say this won’t change. In fact, the Terms of Service usually expressly allow the entity owning the platform to change these things whenever they wish.
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