Originally Posted by FloridaFan
JC.

If you disagree with twitter's, facebook's, instagram's algorithms or censorship, you can choose not to use them.

I don't get why people care who owns them, it's like Walmart. I don't care for their stores, so I avoid them whenever possible. That's not to say that on rare occasion I don't go in and pick up something for the sake of convenience.

I feel that the degree of caring stems from the fact that these services have become de facto 'utilities' and you are seeing ownership of these services construct their algorithms to effectively mute half the conversation.
Yes, it is their right to do so as long as it isn't a result of them being asked to do so by the government or any political party, but it is still a disenfranchisement of a large sector of the population.