Chamath said the same thing cathie said on his podcast “all in.” After hearing his argument I am starting to agree. When you do that you’re giving tech companies way too much power and I don’t want those out of touch cacs in Silicon Valley gate keeping their services.
Twitter and Facebook were the same tech companies saying they can’t ban trump because they’re just a platform and not moderators but as soon as democrats win congress and the president seat they flip their stance to please the party so they don’t get broken up.
that's not what it is at all, fukking trump used the platform to get people to the capitol and storm the place, that was the last straw. at some point you have to stop enabling pure lunacy. people have been asking for them to do this for years, but it took both the right and left feeling some type of way about people running up on congress for them to finally be like, ok, this fringe speech & communities shouldn't be allowed to flourish on our sites.
that's not too much power as there are still tons of dedicated websites for qanon, trumpism, white supremacy, conspiracy theories, etc as well as news networks and sites. i can't get with people crying about the equivalent of not being able to spew stupid shyt over the PA system at madison square garden (FB, Twitter) when they still can stand on the corner with a megaphone (Breitbart, Newsmax, Parler, st0rmfr0nt, OANN) and pretty much do the same