Very sad. The internet was crafted and promoted in a spirit of radical social experimentation, where all kinds of ideas could be shared at light-speed all over the world, each man could have a mouthpiece, and we'd have access to the greatest library of unfiltered information ever devised.<p>These internet companies have ridden the crest of this wave of revolution in human thinking, many glorifying their interest in human revolutions along the way.<p>As private enterprises these companies have the right to police their platforms, but they betray the spirit that gave wind to this experiment in human Idea.<p>And now we are seeing the grand experiment failing.<p>The last 245 years have seen a great experiment in society and freedom, with the society to speak freely, and that the Market of Ideas might itself guide truth, arbitration by the few kept to a minimum. The Internet has been the culmination of this experiment. We are in danger of failing it today.<p>I say WE, because it is ultimately us today collectively, with however much influence we can afford to effect, many Americans and also citizens of the world, that hold within our power to determine for good or for ill the course of our time in the span of the generations. It is US: We are the ones who are fated to determine whether a world society can truly withstand free discourse or crumble utterly beneath it, that the individual of society today might have in his ability in the greater average to discern Truth where the matter is up to his faculties, and that this Truth may will out from the collective good minds and hearts of all men upon this Earth. This is the moment in history, let us not fail this chance to today together continue to craft the free societies of tomorrow with good faith in the heart of mankind. If enough of us do our part honestly, there is a good chance that the generations of tomorrow might look on this moment and say, "In this time, the goodness of humanity prevailed." WBS