I have never used Facebook or Twitter so my comments may not be accurate.

It seems to me that they are under attack from both ends of the political spectrum.

1. Large corporations are now leaving some 70 odd so far because they are woke and don't want to be associated with the negative publicity whenever someone has a rant or says something inappropriate.

This will really hurt their revenue stream so now they are taking steps to censor or simply ban "bad" people however you define that.

2. The public appear to be losing interest in these platforms partly because they feel that they are being censored unfairly, partly because they have the attention span of a goldfish and there is always something new.

It's one thing to ban p***. threats of violence, criminality etc. However lots of other people are being banned unfairly. The journalist Peter Hitchens who writes for The Mail recently had a video banned it was only overturned after thousands of people complained.

Whether you like his politics or not he is a bona fide journalist and is not in the same category as the Neo Nazis. How many ordinary folk have been censored or banned by social media unfairly but don't have the media profile to overturn it?

So Facebook and Twitter have a choice, listen to the money men who run the corporates and ban anyone who is not woke to protect their image. Then watch the number of subscribers fall because people believe they are now just a tool of the big corporates and don't care about freedom of speech.

And when this happens the money men who forced them into this strategy will stop advertising with them as they no longer have the numbers.

I think they are caught between a rock and a hard place.

One more point

Your method of debate has just highlighted why alot of people are un happy.
Well done for such a fine example.

Who said intelligent debate was dead?

I have a lot of sympathy with this POV better to show these people up for what they are using the disinfectant of public scrutiny. Otherwise these people play the victim and gain sympathy because "they tell it as it is".

Debate them and show them up, if you can, and if you can't then maybe you are the one with the problem.

One more point

Agree. I see the same sort of broad brush generalisations directed from both sides of the debate. It really doesn’t help move things on at all.

Vive le Roy!

Facebook was much better when you still had to have a university email address to join and all the political bulls*** from the baby bombers and woke wasn’t on it at all.