The people who have strident beliefs about slavery and colonialism can’t tell that one might be justified and the other not. Which is why it’s dangerous to censor the web based on peoples’ strident beliefs.
I should also point out that it’s one thing to accept that slavery was an unmitigated evil and another to censor things based on that premise. It creates a powerful incentive to attempt to reduce peoples’ points of view to a straw man that you can then have censored. Without diving into the merits of Kanye’s recent statements, its a great example of taking a complex thought and reducing it to an easily-refuted straw man.
Actually I hadn't even considered Kanye. I had to google that because I'm not really a big follower of pop culture. (I'm WAY past the age where I'm keeping up with that type of thing. So I had no idea what you were talking about. It's clear we've been coming at this discussion from different contexts. You're concerned about pop culture, and I'm concerned about compelling companies to post nonsense.)
My only point has been that there are some "unmitigated evils", as you call them, in this world. There's no angle we can look at them and make them NOT evil. Genocide. Slavery. Rape. Etc etc etc. And when you try to equate them with bail bondsmen or what have you, people are going to naturally tune out your argument. I mean, no one is going to allow, for example, genocide speech on their servers simply for the purposes consistency with your thought process. You can have ads for bail bondsmen, or NOT have ads for bail bondsmen. You choose. But under no circumstances will anyone in their right mind tolerate you advertising slaves for your fields or for your domestic needs, or advertising genocidal cullings that people can take part in.
Regardless of whether or not you choose to see it, there is a material difference between those classes of ads. You can't just say that every company should be compelled to post whatever speech anyone cares to put up. It doesn't work that way.
That's just reality. You're going to HAVE to accept SOME "censorship" if that's what you want to call it. (It's not even censorship really. The only reason young people call it that is because the young today were never really taught the concept of private property in their civics courses. But that's a whole other issue.)
I should also point out that it’s one thing to accept that slavery was an unmitigated evil and another to censor things based on that premise. It creates a powerful incentive to attempt to reduce peoples’ points of view to a straw man that you can then have censored. Without diving into the merits of Kanye’s recent statements, its a great example of taking a complex thought and reducing it to an easily-refuted straw man.