Consider the constant right-wing anger at Twitter and Facebook, even though they supplicate to the right, make policy decisions that help right-wing media, and limit the reach of left-wing media to make right-wingers happy. Yet conservatives always see these platforms as enemies.
The platforms do understand, though, that the right will bully them and make their lives hell, but don’t really have a plan to do much to them. Conservatives will not actually follow through on threats to make twitter and facebook common-carrier utilities or break them up.
But the platforms also understand that the “left” – which is hardly left of center when it comes to congress – really would like to break them up. And it’s now looking likely that Dems will be in control of both branches of the legislature and the presidency.
Hence all these sudden lurches in policy.
