It’s more apt to say that people don’t want their online hangouts to be infested with the other team’s brainworms. This is a fair want! And it’s the basis of the free market, the reason we have many commercial options for online speech, not just one.

Somehow I don't think the Trump admin is gonna crack down on his own collusion with Twitter nor the crackdown on free speech on college campuses in response to antiwar protests

> For some reason people cheer rights violations and authoritarianism as long as it's aimed at their "rivals"

Are you talking about the time when Twitter censored the laptop story[1], or about the time when X censored the JD Vance story[2]?

1. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/08/politics/twitter-hearing-hous...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/12/x-twitter-jd...

I know right - can you believe that the billionaire owner one of the social media companies was actively campaigning for one of the candidates and making sure every user saw every post they made in support of that candidate. Including several outright lies that ended up with community notes, but only hours after posting and being seen by millions of people?