There was an essay in N+1 years ago called Googlebang, the thesis being that the proliferation of pornography on the Web was in no small part due to the sexual

There was an essay in N+1 years ago called Googlebang, the thesis being that the proliferation of pornography on the Web was in no small part due to the sexual liberty proliferate in the San Francisco Bay Area that continues to this day. That was the seed that the abundant network effects spread far and wide. I think we can attribute the same source to the phenomenon of reactionary politics being relegated to the Dark Web. It's not that social media companies silence right-wingers per se: right-wingers don't found social media companies.