As far as I know, those commercial platforms only ban apps (and users) that violate their terms of service.
I don’t see much of a distinction. Apple and Google’s stock valuations are larger than those of mid-sized countries, and they wield more soft power too with their censorship. And CCP could just claim that dissidents are violating the “CCP social contract” or whatever. Since Google and Facebook have near monopolies and have taken over large swaths of the public square, we should force them to honor our rights to Free Speech if we can ever get control of this rotten, Globalist-corrupted government.
Indeed, a shocking new bill working its way through Australian parliament (which only the Greens have the courage to oppose) would enable the Aussie government, no doubt with Tyrannical Tech Companies working hand in glove, to not just spy on people’s social media accounts (they’ve been doing that for years), but, chillingly, TAKE OVER such accounts, delete exculpatory evidence, and pose as the legitimate owners of such accounts to frame their original users, etc.
Besides that, we now know that they even let some prominent people slide, even though they violated their terms of service
Ah, some animals are more equal than others, just as in Animal Farm. Purely as a factual issue, this is true. Big Tech allows some kinds of content expressing hatred to stay up, if it’s favored by the Globalist cabal.