People keep forgetting that 1984 assumes a singular authoritarian control, not multiple authorities and the freedom to choose one, several, or none of them.
If you're interested in hateful content stormfront is the next door down
Good thing many alternatives exist!
What if Google and Twitter deside that those "alternatives" are hateful for disagreeing politically and stop linking them on their platforms making it extremely difficult/impossible to find them?
Then people can type in domain names directly. This isn't a hard problem to solve.
What does Google have to do with this discussion about Twitter?
I think your parent is talking about Twitter, Google and the other internet platforms and infrastructure.
Sounds like a private enterprise deciding what they want on their property, to me.