"Censorship always starts with good purposes. But it invariably degenerates because censorship is intrinsically aristocratic. It assumes that people are incapable of deciding for themselves and need someone to tell them—or hide from them—what they are supposedly unable to handle.

If protecting democracy requires creating incentives to remove controversial content, then what remains in the end might not truly be liberal democracy, which is essential to counter authoritarianism, prejudice, and intolerance that have existed long before the internet."