As many have said, it is unequivocally clear now that with Mastercard and Mindgeek, Parler and AWS, and Twitter/Facebook and Trump that commercial companies cannot continue as de facto regulators. Clearly, even they do not want to be in this position.

A lot of the work to get us to this point has been done by journalists, i.e "The Children of Pornhub" article, but also in their own way who have remained committed to democratic norms that we need to understand the need for (good) online regulation in the first place.

However, online regulation is very much the liberal solution. In certain (legislative) outcomes, like a verified internet , we'll still be a long way from addressing the immense consolidation of power in entities like Amazon and Facebook. https://slate.com/technology/2020/12/pornhub-verified-users-twitter.html

Great thread on a lot of this here: https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1348116976019771392?s=19

Another here, by @CyberAlexi https://twitter.com/CyberAlexi/status/1348332847355015171?s=19