I think the herd mentality is a concern with social media. How quickly people react without really thinking too deeply about it. The sharing of disinformation is a part of this, as you rightly say.

As for Twitter going out of business, no I would not say it constrains freedom of speech. There is a key difference between a company mismanaging itself into failure and a company being outlawed for its content. One is a corollary of free enterprise. The other is censorship.

Uh...you do know that a court of law ordered the President of the United States to unblock people on his PERSONAL Twitter account because the judge ruled blocking them was a violation of their First Amendment rights?

Try this, what if you local power company decided to cut off your electricity because it didn't like the way you expressed your political opinion?  If it's a private corporation...would that be okay?

Mike

Uh...you do know that a court of law ordered the President of the United States to unblock people on his PERSONAL Twitter account because the judge ruled blocking them was a violation of their First Amendment rights?

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Apples and oranges. The judge ruled that because of the way Trump was using his personal Twitter account, it should be considered a designated public forum, and thus subject to any First Amendment rights associated with a public forum. That's neither here nor there for the average Twitter user.

But the bigger point is that Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and social media in general now plays a massive role in our political discourse.  If those companies ban, shadowban, or censor you, that significantly impacts your ability to participate in public debate as it currently exists.  You do not see a problem with that?  Is that because they're private businesses or because you don't think it will ever happen to someone you like?

Mike

Guys like... well almost anyone in the early 90s were lazy and sloppy and they cared much more about money than they did about story-telling and art and then they have the gaul to bad mouth JB behind his back and pretend he is their idol and best friend on social media. And everyone else has been trying to keep up with Byrne ever since and even if he never writes or draws another panel again - as far as I am concerned his legacy is secure. But I digress.