"do we really want a handful of unelected billionaires deciding what is acceptable speech"
That's pretty much been newspapers in the UK for as long as I can remember!
That's pretty much been newspapers in the UK for as long as I can remember!
It’s just the last 20 years or so of everybody having a megaphone that is outside the norm.
With social media, your feed is perfectly catered to you as an individual, by using as much data on you as they can get their hands on, and a nearly endless supply of content from the "megaphones" of other users. Even if you have many of the same friends as someone, and politically align with them, you probably would find scrolling through their feed to be less interesting than scrolling through your own.