Outrageous indeed... But... But... But... It's OK to do that... As long as you're a DEMOCRAT?
In the video linked below, Glenn Greenwald points out that the "it's a private company" argument fails when there is government coercion for censorship. He illustrates the sort of coercion being applied with a clip from Jen "The Hammer" Psaki.
It's all fun and games until someone guilty of wrongthink gets deplatformed!
Democrats Are Pressuring Companies to Censor For Them: a Violation of the First Amendment (0:27)
Feb 3, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_uSPwYiVFs
Defenders of growing online censorship typically use euphemisms to argue that private companies have the right to make whatever "content moderation" decisions they want. Even if true, that's not what is happening. Democrats are using their majority power in Washington to pressure companies to censor for them. Jen Psaki's demands on Spotify to do more about Joe Rogan is just the latest example of this unconstitutional practice.
See also:
Opinion | Save the Constitution From Big Tech
Jan. 11, 2021
https://www.wsj.com/articles/save-the-constitution-from-big-tech-11610387105
Conventional wisdom holds that technology companies are free to regulate content because they are private, and the First Amendment protects only against government censorship. That view is wrong: Google, Facebook and Twitter should be treated as state actors under existing legal doctrines. Using a combination of statutory inducements and regulatory threats, Congress has co-opted Silicon Valley to do through the back door what government cannot directly accomplish under the Constitution.