https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/internet-social-media-fairness-not-government-business/
Interesting perspective^^^
In the end, internet freedom is bigger than Facebook, and Google Youtube, and Twitter combined.
Dennis Prager is still very much available on the internet, even if the main engines and formats are run by petulant little leftists who give into peer pressure from the bullies that they answer to.
I imagine that this Jones fellow can still be found too.
Censorship makes these venues less useful than internet sites that allow greater access to the information that the searchers want. Limiting access to information is a risky business choice in a competitive information environment, where people ultimately will go to sites that give them the information that they are looking for more easily.
I don't think that freedom is going to be a problem for conservatives in the long run, even of that freedom now means allowing leftists running these sites to continue to be the biased partisans that they have now been exposed to be.
I don't think that even governments have the ability to squeeze off the pipes of information completely, although giving them more power to regulate will be a blow against freedom nevertheless. One cannot solve the problem of a hole by digging a bigger hole.
A search engine that limits access to Dennis Prager is an inferior product in that way to one that gives broader access to his excellent works.
And a search engine that does not provide access to Alex Jones is one that ignores the right wing lunatic fringe market completely. For sure the lunatic fringe market on the left more than makes up for all of that exponentially, as it is even larger than an Alex Jones audience, but a venue that allows access to both potentially serves more customers, generates more ad money, etc., etc.
Google gives a fantastic product in many ways. But the turnover in internet companies is tremendous, and without government largess, no company in the world is too big to fail.
Make enough bad business decisions and the 'Obama who?' refrain of today will become the 'Google who?' refrain of tomorrow.