There's a huge difference between people being booted off proprietary hosting systems (Cloudflare) or platforms (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) and censorship at the IP and BGP level with deep packet inspection and real time filtering.

The Internet in the USA and much of the world remains pretty damn neutral. It doesn't care much what bits you send over it. That's not the case in China, Russia, and a number of other more authoritarian countries.

We can encrypt everything of course, but if the censorship is at the wire level that may not be enough. Using meta-data, IPs tied to identities, and loads of other information sources it's possible to dynamically filter content and people by inference.