They main danger of what is censored is to the government’s narratives. From John and Nisha Whitehead at rutherford.org:
“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”—Ray Bradbury
What we are witnessing is the modern-day equivalent of book burning which involves doing away with dangerous ideas—legitimate or not—and the people who espouse them.Seventy years after Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 depicted a fictional world in which books are burned in order to suppress dissenting ideas, while televised entertainment is used to anesthetize the populace and render them easily pacified, distracted and controlled, we find ourselves navigating an eerily similar reality.
Welcome to the age of technocensorship.
On paper—under the First Amendment, at least—we are technically free to speak.
In reality, however, we are now only as free to speak as a government official—or corporate entities such as Facebook, Google or YouTube—may allow.
Case in point: internal documents released by the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government confirmed what we have long suspected: that the government has been working in tandem with social media companies to censor speech.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984
George Orwell’s 1984 is often cited as a guide to what will happen. Although Orwell was opposed to communism he was a socialist and thought that government should exercise control of the masses, just not too much. I think Aldous Huxley may have been closer with his work of Brave New World where the control was exercised mainly by the mob with the state intervening only when necessary. People I have had conversations with often think that they will no when gangs roam the streets and there is no government. There are gangs, the police who brutally arrest people for not wearing masks or gathering at their churches and do nothing when mostly ‘peaceful’ protests burn cities to the ground, murder, plunder and freely rob stores while the police agree with their masters to not do anything.