They are doing what they are doing because the congress calls Dorsey in 3 times a year to yell at him allowing people to think the wrong things. For a long time they resisted doing what the congress wanted...but then it became apparent people were too stupid to back them over their corrupt political representatives. So they capitualted.
Just look at their interactions with congress -- the tech guys don't actually believe this is about free speech or misinformation. This is about power and who gets to gatekeep the media.
They don't care. They just want to make money. They will side with whatever political force looks like it is winning.
There is a clear pattern in what they do censor -- its stuff that MSNBC, NYT, and CNN think they should. They sometimes walk it back if Fox argues they shouldn't have. They try to pretend its a neutral process, and there is a neutral process. But its clear they manually block things without any deliberation or review very quickly when the media is on their ass about something. Its clear they had a very hands off approach of enforcing their rules when it came to certain political events (BLM).
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