Outdated view, I'm afraid. I might agree with you regarding free speech and free expression if it wasn't, as is increasingly happening, shaped and manipulated

Outdated view, I'm afraid. I might agree with you regarding free speech and free expression if it wasn't, as is increasingly happening, shaped and manipulated either by algorithms or basic, out-in-the-open policy. For example, I took a look at X for the first time in ages the other day via xcancel ... it was even more of a cesspit than it has been where horrible voices were shown first because they had a blue tick (which is not a signifier of any form of quality) and many reasonable voices are drowned out. If this is the trend for all networks (and we see here Zuckerberg capitulating here unsurprisingly), then a time will quickly come where these billionaires will shape narrative quickly and easily. And, of course, that time is already here, "just not evenly distributed".