Facebook, as is its right, has decided not to publish the junk conspiracy theories of Alex Jones. Much like a baker, photographer, or florist who won’t promulgate messages that they reject, Facebook is refusing to facilitate the peddling of Jones’s dreck.

Some worry, not illegitimately, that this decision is at the top of a slippery slope. Whose content will Facebook ban next? Maybe an opponent of gay marriage. Maybe a news site that doesn’t use pronouns approved by social justice warriors for the transgendered. But so long as Facebook owns and operates its platform, any cries of “censorship” are misguided. Censorship involves government abridgment of free speech. It isn’t about private citizens or corporations editing out BS.