# To what extent can social media companies censor their platforms? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 2, 2025, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-extent-can-social-media-companies-censor-their-platforms/1020403 "2025-07-02T15:34:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 37
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-extent-can-social-media-companies-censor-their-platforms/1020403/37 "2025-07-04T12:18:53Z")
Then there’s this: > [@A small warning about Newser](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-small-warning-about-newser/1020479): > > Newser is a news aggregation site. Lots of condensed stories. It has the Disqus social media app for comments. I’ve been posting there for years. I was replying to a post, gloating about deporting people to third party countries, when I was suddenly blocked from posting. Note that I had posting one time, previously, in the same Thread, just seconds before. And now, I can’t post there at all. It claims I “must provide verification”. I checked other Disqus-enabled sites, and I can post ther… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-extent-can-social-media-companies-censor-their-platforms/1020403)._