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> Very sad. The internet was crafted and promoted in a spirit of radical social experimentation, where all kinds of ideas could be shared at light-speed all over the world, each man could have a mouthpiece, and we'd have access to the greatest library of unfiltered information ever devised.

"The greatest library of unfiltered information ever devised," is only a marginal improvement on the Library of Babel (e.g. an impressive but useless thing that causes its enthusiasts to go mad).

> These internet companies have ridden the crest of this wave of revolution in human thinking, many glorifying their interest in human revolutions along the way.

> As private enterprises these companies have the right to police their platforms, but they betray the spirit that gave wind to this experiment in human Idea.

> And now we are seeing the grand experiment failing.

That experiment is failing just as much due to its own internal contradictions as it is to any kind action by internet companies.