[swayvil]

Social media is very much like corporate in that arbitrary assertion backed with absolute power (downvoting, censorship, banning, cancelling...) runs everything.

And anything can be asserted. Up is down, black is white, beautiful is ugly. And you'd better go along with it or you're out.

Call it hive-corporatism.

It seems to be a natural social formation.

[ltfey]

I agree. I don't know what's "natural" because I don't think human nature is well-defined or stable; most humans seem to reflect the context they are in. Otherwise, you are absolutely correct, and this problem is not limited to the corporate adversaries or "the right". It is truly systemic.

[nsv]

At least social media has an element of democracy to it.