[Kattywumpus]

As I pointed out above, this is really 20th century thinking. Social media allows for a kind of mob behavior that has shown itself antithetical to the kind of market liberalism most of our current assumptions are based on.

Or did you not notice that Parler and its hundreds of thousands of users had literally been systematically erased from the internet yesterday by hounding their service providers?

It's bizarre to see the liberal left I grew up with now defending a kind of insane market fundamentalism and corporate control of the commons of free speech without even blinking at the contradiction. I think that liberal left I grew up with is dead.

We need a name for what it has become, and where they are taking us.

[AnimalMuppet]

How about "social authoritarian"? Or "non-government authoritarian"? They don't have the power of government behind them, but they manage to be pretty authoritarian without it...