As an aside, it is my considered belief that the cure for social media companies censoring posts is to make them adhere to Rule 230. What this means is that if they filter out posts that are not related to advocating violence, that means they are exercising editorial control, and they are thus liable to be sued by individuals, groups or the government. On the other hand, if they don’t censor posts, other than ones dealing with advocating violence, then they are not exercising editorial control, they are just providing a new form of the Public Square, and they cannot be sued by anybody for the opinions expressed on their websites by others. The problem here is that our government, which promulgated Rule 230, has not been enforcing it. There is one way to make that change, and then involves getting the current corrupt leftist administration tossed out on its ass this November.
I’m okay with that, though it could well lead to them exercising the tight editorial control—and we know how that’d go.
They aren’t really separate from government anyway, insofar as they were governmental creations, however disguised, but that would be a tough one to fight.