Do we want social media companies to decide whether Kanye West gets a platform?

‘We need to address the underlying problem directly: the monopoly power possessed by the giant social media companies.’ Photograph: Jean-Baptiste Lacroix/AFP/Getty Images

Twitter and Instagram just removed antisemitic posts from Kanye West and temporarily banned him from their platforms. It just goes to show … um, what?

How good these tech companies are at content moderation? Or how irresponsible they are for “muzzling” controversial views from the extreme right? (Defenders of West, such as the Indiana attorney general, Todd Rokita, are incensed that he’s been banned.) Or how arbitrary these giant megaphones are in making these decisions? (What would Elon Musk do about Kanye West?)