Section 230 protected forums and comments sections on news websites. It was not designed with the ubiquitous social media we have now in mind. The level of influence and control the technocracy has over speech is unconstitutional for several reasons, not the least of which being that they each possess a monopoly over the section of tech they control.
It even goes to ads. If you don't comply with Google's draconian ad policy you can't advertise. This matters because Google is the defacto advertising monopoly and if, say, you wanted to sell gun parts you literally are unable to advertise on the only actual place where it matters.
A simple solution is to use laws to smash anti-competitive behavior and break the companies into several hundred smaller companies. This won't happen because the democrats are in bed with the technocracy and refuse to prosecute the laws they swore to protect. I guess we should probably start by recalling senators and governors under new laws that target people who are unwilling to perform their civic duty, and then go after the companies who have a monopoly.
Then there's the argument of the "public square". There are no current laws that cover this because prior to the advent of tech no one could really stop you from shouting your ideas with a megaphone in a park, and worst case you get trespassed from one or two places.
With the current incarnation of tech where social media has become so ubiquitous that it is essentially a "public square" the "its a private company" argument ceases to be relevant in all practical senses. The anarcho-libertarian idea being tried here is failing and the only reason you're not complaining is because you have far left views. They have what is called an information monopoly and therefore any idea they disagree with will defacto not be heard. You can make shitty one-off blogs all you want but even if your opinion is good, but dissenting from the dogma of the technocracy, your voice is effectively muted. This is a good parallel to being put in a soundproof box in the very park you were once able to actually stand on a soapbox and talk in.
Imagine how up in arms you'd be if Google wasn't a far left radical friendly technopoly and instead was a far right venue. Would you be upset when you couldn't use Telegram/Facebook/Twitter/etc because you got banned when you presented a different opinion on something? Certainly you would.
Now is the time realize that you're being played because of your political views and forcing these companies to break up, implementing "public square" laws for the internet, and enforcing the first amendment is probably the most important thing we can do in the next 50 years. Unfortunately no one wants to reach across the aisle to get it done. Certainly, this is because the censorship currently benefits the far left and lord do we know the democrats love suffering when it benefits them. We're reaching Brave New World levels of bullshit and frankly it should be terrifying. Perhaps if the democrats had more of that "empathy" they keep spewing bullshit about they'd see this.
