The new front lines of this fight are on social media - Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram and others.
2.5 billion people use at least one of Facebook's apps, making it probably the most important social media platform. Unfortunately, its employees, from the CEO on down, don't really believe in free speech. They believe in and actively practice censorship on a scale almost unimaginable a few years ago.
Facebook's embattled founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and its Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg seem determined to make the situation worse. After declaring to Congress their commitment to neutrality, they made end-of-year pronouncements that both promised more censorship, and appeased the far left by vowing to involve them with "new products, features and policies."
Facebook is now openly antagonistic toward the right. Posts aren't just blocked by humans who decide what they do or don't like; they are blocked by computer programs designed by humans to ensure liberal sensibilities are not offended. The New York Times says the company is monitoring "billions of posts per day in over 100 languages." That makes what Facebook is doing almost impossible to track, until it's too late.
Comment: What Facebook along with the other tech giants claim to be supporting do not reflect their actions in anyway. And if anything, we can expect to see more overt and covert censorship under the guise of 'protecting people from harmful and discriminating content'. See also: