Planet of the Censoring Humans

They feel like they are in control and saving the world. In reality the platforms are in control and choose to favour them for now.

That pretty much sums it up. Google, Facebook, etc. were once the underdogs, fighting against the established media companies of the world (all of whom absolutely censored their own content.) They’ve mostly succeeded and now are in the driver’s seat, so they are acting in a predictable fashion.

It’s just the cycle of life: open-minded underdog replaces monolithic incumbent, until it becomes the monolith and gets replaced by someone else. The YouTube of 2030 is shaping up to be decidedly neutered and boring, and I’m sure someone else will be ready to eat their lunch.

Unfortunately the ludicrousness of Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Google, Cloudflare etc setting themselves up as arbiters of truth or morality will come back to bite them.

Having done it once for "good reason" they will need to justify themselves to whoever is in power as to why they cannot do it for "other pressing reason".

If they cannot position themselves simply as operators of a mechanism that allows individuals and groups to act as their own publishers then they are a threat to us.

Time to get rid of them. I do not need to be protected from the opinions of anyone. I can make my own mind up.