Comment Trump still wins (Score 0, Flamebait) 272
For over two-hundred years, restraint of the government's power to prohibit private speech, as embodied by the U.S. Constitution's first amendment and enforced by the Judicial branch, was effective protection against suppression of individual expression. Now, with the supplantation of traditional print fora with the politically-aligned Twitter/Facebook/Google digital social media oligopoly, unless four guys, Mark Zuckerberg, (formerly) Jack Dorsey, Sergey Brin and Larry Page (or their proxies) approve of what you are saying, then you are not allowed to be heard.
The Democrats are probably correct that corporate blacklisting of dissident political views is their constitutional right. Though it is questionable whether the restricted communication of a social media ban hurts Trump more than the perceived injustice of it helps him. In fact, Trump probably has no expectation of winning his own lawsuits. As with much of what he says, the true intention is to bait Democrats into expressing their own unpopular beliefs. Now Trump has the opposition voluntarily shouting from the rooftops that billionaire Democrats should have the power to shut up anyone they please. So regardless of the legal outcome, this is already looking like a win for Trump.
Also, those Democrat-controlled social media companies are as profit driven as they are ideologically driven and a large portion of their revenues come from anti-Democrat customers viewing anti-Democrat content. There are limits to how far they can go in censoring news before they drive away enough customers to impact revenues. Forcing out Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro and the like would cost them revenue.
Finally, Democrats used their social-media power advantage to howitzer themselves in the foot, electing a dishonest, corrupt, incompetent, senile pedophile to the Presidency. And to elect an unpopular incompetent bozo as vice-president. Their hoaxes (Russian collusion, Smollet, etc) are blowing up their faces as they are debunked. Democrat poll numbers are at historical lows and Republicans are expected to dominate the 2022 midterms. So Democrats, how is that social media Trump ban working out for you?