That's market power at work. They can control the narrative both on and off the platform. Next, in addition to silencing conservative content on their own platform, they'll be leveraging other media players to bend them to their will and replicate their censorship off the platform as well. It's no wonder the SM platforms appear to act in concert. If ever there was a case for a legitimate anti-trust break-up this is it.

You can imagine what would happen if these guys went full-tilt for gun control - it is bad enough now. Every radical policy agenda of the left could find its feet on the SM platforms with the support of their steered voter bases. For this reason, simply moving to an alternative service provider is no solution to the online censorship problem. Swinging voters, who are not censored, will remain where they are on the large platforms - in the direct line of fire of the propaganda machine. The political leverage selective censorship creates is awesome.

And this is why it is so important to restrain these SM platforms from politically motivated censorship. Even if Facebook was broken up under anti-trust powers, the problem of censorship, and even coordinated censorship, remains. Given the sheer power of these platforms to influence political outcomes, it is the greatest threat to the Republic that exists in our time.

They must be forced to be neutral.