It is well known that Facebook and Google violate privacy with regularity. It is less well known that they censor whatever they feel like.

Two recent examples:

• Gay people are censored on Facebook
• Palestinian activists are censored on YouTube

Large companies denying services is the new way to censor the internet. I am now convinced of the need for open source, distributed photo and video hosting, as well as an open source social network. Maybe even distributed DNS. If the internet is not free, neither are we.