[rad88]

The figure at the center of all of this, when he was banned, literally just said whatever and started a competing social media site. Concerns about this topic have picked up over the last decade; "we'll carry anything" companies have formed in response. Not that those didn't exist before.

In any case, you can get online somewhere to say what you want. Use Cloudflare. The market surrounding the matter of publishing stuff online is healthy, and the nature of the internet/web is such that you can reach a global audience with relatively minor equipment.

On the consumer side, what is the argument? There is no lack of outlets, serving every niche, freely available on the same connection that delivers you Twitter. What's the problem? That people can't look away from Twitter?

[tptacek]

One pretty easy bit of subtext to infer from these discussions: American politics have polarized on education and SES, and the platforms where plugged-in knowledge workers, hipsters, and celebrities tend to hang out are naturally inflected with the politics of those cohorts of people, which really pisses off conservatives who want to hang out in those spaces.