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The Nation

Donald Trump is showing us what an unaccountable class of corporate decision-makers looks like—and it looks like a lot of fear, and a terrible loss of freedom.

The lesson is clear: controlling access to basic necessities—whether credit, land, or in today’s case, speech platforms—can be as effective in stifling political freedom as outright government bans. A society that fails to recognize the speech threat of monopolistic corporations like Amazon, Google, or Meta is one that has abandoned the true spirit of free expression.