Discriminatory algorithms that keep people from seeing content that big tech wants hidden is bad but censorship by banning users who create content is the bigger problem.
Here is an idea to mitigate censorship.
Take an open-source browser and modify it in such a way that if the URL of a banned user on one of the big social media sites is entered it will take you to a similar page for that user but on another site.
i.e. If a users URL were https://twitter.com/somebanneduser and that user were to be banned on twitter then whenever that URL was entered into the browser it would take you to https://SomeAlternateSite.com/somebanneduser
This would really piss off the major social media sites.
Instead of existing links to the banned user taking people to the original site where they would see the obligatory THIS USER HAS BEEN BANNED FOR VIOLATING TERMS OF SERVICE message they would be sent to the users page on another site...this way the banned user would not lose contact with their followers. The banned users link could be pointed at any URL including a server under the users direct control.
This is a pretty simple idea but the utility of it could be huge... as things stand now a banned user just loses contact with most of his followers.
You can’t copyright a users URL and there is no way for the original social media site that banned the user to directly interfere with this scheme.... it no longer would depend in any way on cooperation from the site that enacted the ban.
If a new social media site such as gettr.com created such a modified browser they could funnel all banned users to their site. The modified browser could redirect any URL that pointed to a banned user to a page instructing them how to verify their identity and create their new site on the new platform. The modified browser could easily use simple text parsing to determine if a URL pointed to a banned page.
News of such a browser would spread quickly and when someone tried a link to a user they followed and discovered they had been banned they would know to get the modified browser and try to view the content that way.
It’s just a workaround until the media sites are hopefully brought under control..and it might make it less appealing for big tech to ban users since they would know that would funnel followers to a different social media site where they might just be inclined to stay.. some banned users have had millions of followers and a big chunk of them would have switched to whatever new site continued to carry the banned content. i.e. RealDonaldTrump 100+ million followers.
Just an idea...
Might even keep track of how many times the browser user hits banned posters on a given site. So after like the 10th time you try to go to www.twitter.com\donaldtrump and www.twitter.com\maga and www.twitter.com\rondesantis, the browser would begin to assume that the politics of the site in question didn’t align with those of the user, and would begin to default to alternate sites, or maybe give a popup giving the user the explicit choice. Then the cancelling sites lose more hits/opportunities to brainwash than just directly related to the specific banned posters. That’d put a pair of Vise-grips on their balls!