I think unless advertisers embrace a form of socialism, it's too easy to demand privileges and directions from the company. Re hodlbod, question for you, how would it have changed the election outcome? Wasn’t election before that and Jan 6 a reaction to it ? I remember watching the lockdown and riots at capital hill live - i think the whole world was - and we were joking about how the US would have screamed bloody murder if this happened to any other country.
Twitter (and Facebook) blocked an article critical of Hunter Biden weeks before the election. Turns out that was highly germane to Biden's fitness for office. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/14/facebook-twitter-new-york-post-hunter-biden