There is a difference between a communist autocracy where the parties with political and military power get to define what the right opinion is and a free marke

There is a difference between a communist autocracy where the parties with political and military power get to define what the right opinion is and a free market of ideas where people are allowed to express all sorts of ideas including hateful ones but where others are free to disassociate themselves from you and not to promote your ideas. The difference between phone and internet systems is that they represent a limited number of points of contact between yourself and the entire rest of the world its important that they remain impartial in the same way that we don't want your local and only power company deciding whether your shop can exist. The broader internet is inherently diverse enough to allow virtually everyone who isn't actually directly violating the same laws as they exist within to exist. We don't need facebook as a common carrier to achieve this. Lets contextualize this shall we. Conservatives of the former average bent talking about fiscal responsibility, importance of gun rights, support of actual family values have zero problem operating in the prior and evolving social media context. New school conservatives that flirt with hate and violence about as openly as David Duke or who promote actively harmful and hateful content are seeing their ability to do so curtailed after sharing their hate resulted in a number of people being murdered/harmed. The thing is that this conservative demographic much as it has become more visible and more energetic because it is shrinking not because it is growing. In 20 years it will be limping. In 40 it will be virtually extinct.