Furthermore, this serves as a reminder of how platform companies are anything but neutral observers or content hosts. As organizations of human beings, they are in this historical moment intentionally instrumental to and complicit in the construction of authoritarian power.

It also facilitates the authoritarian tactic of hollowing terms and ideas to cultivate meaninglessness and ignorance in social, political, and legal discourses, allowing them to be filled in the future in some manner useful to power, or else obliterated entirely.