At present, Free Speech feels normal.
Which is weird. Someone (not me) said:
It’s crazy to look back and realize:
Trump was banned from Twitter for two years.
Trump was banned from YouTube for two years.
Trump was banned from Instagram and Facebook for two years.
The government pressured Facebook to censor dissenting voices as “misinformation”.
The government pressured Twitter to shadowban conservative accounts.
The government pressured Twitter to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Trump has been hit with hundreds of lawsuits incurring $100-200 million in expenses over the last 8 years
Legacy media near-uniformly posted negative headlines about Trump
Google search results reflected and may have even amplified media bias