This is where I'm at as well. I don't consider these private companies because:
1. They are publicly traded
2. They have said over and over that they are a public square and when everyone was locked at home, they became e
even more of a public square
3. They have a terms of service that is only applied for certain groups of people and not applied for others (Anti-White tweets from a New York Times editor, putting the covington kids in woodchippers from Hollywood people, etc) and when they do censor you, they don't tell you why
4. Some of these people are now working in the government, making these tech companies an arm of the Government. Like @hooptyuber said, the Government is going through these private companies to get rid of people they don't like, and the Media serves as their lapdogs. That is too much protection for these "so-called" private companies.
5. And this lab leak story that the media was talking about last week. It was news Last April but those people were brushed aside as conspiracy theorists.
This isn't a free market. If it was Parler would still be up in it's original form. Instead you have these "private" companies colluding with each other to keep in power and have monopolies on the Internet. That is dangerous in what should be a healthy functioning society.
