"The libertarian argument that YouTube is owned by a private company which is entitled to police content as it wishes is no longer sustainable. We live in a dig

"The libertarian argument that YouTube is owned by a private company which is entitled to police content as it wishes is no longer sustainable. We live in a digital world in which a handful of big tech companies have seized control of the public square. As I have argued before, we need a First Amendment for the Internet." So let me get this straight. Conservatives no longer support property rights, believe access to broadcast media should be a government enforced entitlement, and support something like a fairness doctrine. Liberals meanwhile believe certain ideas and forms of expression should be censored, call opponents of this "free speech extremists," and are fine with three or four corporations shaping public discourse. Do I have this right? It really does seem as if everyone on all sides lost their minds starting roughly 2012-2014. I could compile quite a long list of examples and not just around this issue. My hypothesis for a cause is the algorithmic timeline and its kin. We shifted around that time from mostly neutral media for online discussion to the automatic moderation of discussion to drive engagement with the medium itself. What drives engagement? Negativity, cartoonishly extreme positions, outrage, hate, fear, trolling, etc. Over time everyone has been driven toward... well... those opinions and styles of discourse that most effectively drive engagement.