This isn't the government doing thisWhen it comes to control of information, I don't think it's only the government that we have to worry about.
stop trying to construe it as some great 'issue of our time'.
This is the great issue of our time.
I'd argue this is the natural selection of ideas at work.
No, that would be those ideas getting downvotes and no one listening to them. That would be the circumstance where no one wants to fund them. Instead, people want to fund them, but a few powerful people want to throw roadbocks in their way. This is a powerful organization that controls financial transactions pulling the strings to suppress ideas they don't like.
If you can't harness the momentum perhaps it means that your idea just isn't cut out for life on the grand stage of society
The ideas have momentum. It's that large organizations are pulling the strings and pulling the plug. It would be as you say, if individuals were pulling the funding. Instead, it's a big company not letting many, many individuals fund as they would like.
Your talking point is just another example of this: People in media trying to sell the idea that this is "the marketplace of ideas in action." No. It's the marketplace of ideas being manipulated.
(And if you want to see the long arc of history bend in the right way, the wrong thing to do is to manipulate the marketplace of ideas. That is precisely what gives ammunition to the toxic extremists and the flim flam artists.)