to the degree it is effective, yes, the people who own the platforms will be most effective at it. which gets us back to @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com's original point, some progressive version of "we" imagined that we governed, controlled in some sense, the platforms so it could work… 1/

but it turns out that fascist plutocrats do, and the old "free speech" story that people at the bottom of social hierarchies are most vulnerable to gatekeeping do hold some water after all. /fin