NotYoMama+FollowArticle 3B — How Platforms Manage Instead of Censor People think censorship looks like a wall. A ban. A takedown. A hard “no.” That’s outdated. Modern platforms don’t silence people outright. They manage them. Management looks like friction, not force. Character limits that quietly shrink. Reach that slows without explanation. Posts that technically exist but rarely surface. Nothing you can point to. Nothing they have to defend. Officially, nothing is wrong. That’s the genius of it. If you complain, you sound paranoid. If you adapt, you self-censor. Either way, the system wins without ever saying your content isn’t allowed. This is why platforms can claim neutrality while behaving selectively. They don’t block ideas—they make them harder to express, harder to find, harder to sustain. Enough resistance that most people stop pushing. And most people do stop. Not because they’re wrong. Because it’s exhausting to speak clearly inside systems designed to reward smoothness and punish friction. This is also why comedians get a pass. Comedy contains dissent. It burns off pressure without changing behavior. Plain speech doesn’t offer that release. It teaches. It connects dots. It lingers. So it gets managed. If your content feels like it’s being quietly boxed in instead of openly challenged, that’s not an accident. That’s the system doing exactly what it was built to do. Control doesn’t need to announce itself. It just needs you to slow down. #CriticalThinking #FreeThought #SocialMedia #Censorship #Algorithms #PatternRecognition60Share
