1. I don't know about platforms but I do know about an entire medium... and one that mitigates point-to-point communication such as me telling my neighbours about a local concern... is corporate overreach. You yourself don't like Disney so would you ok with Disney deciding you weren't allowed to use he/she anymore in your Facebook posts ? My point isn't about left/right it's about controlling communication.
As a conservative, it's in your interest to not want the mob to decide what you can/can't say.
2. It has been for awhile, with Twitter (Trump getting kicked out or not, with the rules being used selectively for others) and Facebook too. There have been calls from Trump as well as people like Elizabeth Warren to address it.
3. Not ok.
why are you pretending any of that idiot's complaints are in good faith? Hell, they're not even coherent.
1. It sucks that almost all our communication is mediated through platforms owned by sociopathic billionaires who are accountable to no one with powers that a medieval despot could only dream of.
2. With that being said, they can do what they want as private actors and as long as this is the model we're stuck with, our choices are either live with it or opt out of using those platforms.
3. It's extremely comical to hear right wingers complain about suppression of conservative speech when there's no evidence of censorship and plenty of evidence that these platforms amplify conservative voices.
4. It's also funny that decades of conservative activism to hollow out the ability of the state to take action on antitrust issues and promote monopolies have led to social media companies having free reign to censor conservatives (a thing that, again, is not actually happening).
5. The only issue people have with Musk buying Twitter is that he's gonna make it suck even more than it already does. It's not like there aren't plenty of places on the internet where people can say whatever they want, it's just that those places are terrible and most normal people avoid them for that reason.