As @AliAbunimah reports, it appears Twitter is now doing the same.
Begging tech companies to censor will always backfire
electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abun…
The fantasy that corporations are going to exercise censorship powers to protect - rather than repress - the most marginalized needs to stop:
theintercept.com/2017/12/30/fac…
By contrast, tech companies never wanted this responsibility. It was foisted upon them by liberals who moronically thought internet censorship would protect them.