Power in the form of censorship

"Should social media companies and big tech have the right or the power to silence voices on their platforms?"

Social media companies and big tech companies should have the power to be able to silence voices on their media platforms. Pew research center did a survey and found that 72% of U.S. adults say that social media platforms are having too much of an influence on today's society. In a similar way, 59% of people think that certain types of media should be banned or censored in order to stop different messages from being misunderstood, for example, the covid pandemic showed how different information was twisted into something to either scare people further or give wrong news. Platforms such as Twitter began really as a tool that allowed those in social circles to essentially "shout out" to one another, but it has increasingly become a broadcast platform to reach the masses. Some 47% of the population thinks that the government should be regulation major technology companies more than it is now. Regulation can be seen as a good thing but censorship may be argued against. Rather than silencing someone's right to free speech, it could be edited or just the post that was seen as offensive could be taken down. An example of this is when Twitter permanently suspended Donald Trump's account. As of this within the weekend nearly every link to his account was taken down as well as him being banned from as well social media giant Facebook. The people who hold the power here are the ones creating the content as well as the ones regulating it. Social media is still a massive evolving phenomenon and the problem is now whether it is having a more positive or negative affect and influence on the masses