"as the state defends a new law restricting when platforms can suspend users. " Be sure that they are creating this because they intend to flood alternative sites with bots and fucking neo-bolsheviks. And sooner or later, it will come to the state telling you that you can't ban them or remove people who post calls to violence and pornography--both of which will be used to shut down sites that allow people to communicate and speak the truth freely. All of this, instead of simply *enforcing the god damn law* about platforms becoming publishers. Thats how you know this is the GOP slowwalking another DNC initiative. 1. Allow companies to run roughshod over the public, creating a crisis (problem). 2. Ramp up anger over this, amplify it, and propose laws giving the state authority to decide who can speak and who cant (reaction) Present it as the solution to overreach, instead of enforcing the law against platforms that act like publishers 3. A few years (or months) down the line, this is then used to censor the right even further. (synthesis). bonus 4. GOP throws up their hands and says "no one could have predicted this!" 5. Republican politician grandstand about fighting it, only to do nothing, or fail in their weak efforts. 6. more censorship. More demonization of americans by the establishment, media, wallstreet, silicon valley, and DC.