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>Does the fact that Twitter/Facebook/et al banned the NYPost in the run-up to the 2020 election as well as preventing people from sending links to NYPost articles in their DMs "demonstrate" anything about the US?

Not about its government, given that they did not demand (or even informally pressure) that the tech companies involved make this move.



So it's not a "sham" if large private corporations heavily tilt the scales on who gets elected? Only the reverse?




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