My 2 cents
People work to together when their interest align.
Some work together with others when the money is right despite ideologies or overall purposes. they don't really care what about rights, ideals or consequences.
This creates conspiracies of interest. Not necessarily a conspiracy of groups of people on ONE dark mission.
Facebook and other tech leadership are socially left woke leaning scumbags. And control freaks.
They'll do what they want & join with other of the same mindset in politics and academia on those socially left woke issues.
Using their individual points of power to further those ends and help others where they can.
Many Politicians are opportunist and will use whatever anyone will give them to move the power&money balls their way. those like Hillary don't give a d@mn about lgbtxyz or christians or the constitution or much of anything but her own power. And being with the groups in power.
And many of them are on the WEF bandwagon which they think will bring them the kind of control they do really want.
Some of the academicians are crazy and believe their own woke socialist crap. And assume that others ...politicians and tech corps, other corps etc... should all be on the band wagon and don't see ANY problem suppressing what they sincerely consider others "harmful speech".
Many Gov't Spooks, Alphabet agencies and Gov't bureaucrats have their own agendas (and are also connected with the WEF crap) they've worked across decades to control public narratives in various forms and take EVERY opportunity to increase that kind of reach. An Argument can be made that they've done so since before the CHURCH Commission in the 60s when they admitted having CIA and other agencies working at or with ABC, CBS, NBC and the major newspapers.
But thier narrative control and speech control efforts have been especially overt since 911. Where muslims and socalled supporters became "suspects" for their speech.
So they made excuses to them shut down in various ways. Also militia groups after Waco and OKcity bombings.
And again when Trump won, all of sudden "Russian" speech on the web needed to be controlled and investigated.... "to keep us safe".
EACH EXCUSE simply opened the door to more gov't/corporate control of ALL speech.
It's not a slippery slope just been 1 OPEN DOOR opening wider every year.
Once folks decide Militia & Muslim speech was "too Dangerous"
At that point there's never been any real LINE not to cross.
After the gov't says "
"this" speech is too dangerous". At that point "
this" is just a
place holder for
anything else they want to censors or control.
"for our safety"