The problem with social media is not that different services banned President Trump or other conservatives, it’s that those services have such a stranglehold on free speech that even the President of the United States has trouble getting his message out without them. We have let a Silicon Valley Cartel have so much control over who gets heard and who doesn’t, that it has become a very real threat to free speech in America. Instinctively, many conservatives tend to recoil at that statement because they incorrectly believe that only the government can threaten free speech. Even a decade ago, that would have been true – and that’s coming from someone who did social media for Duncan Hunter’s presidential campaign in 2008 Back then, if you had asked me what was more important, getting support for my candidate on conservative blogs and websites or building a powerful social media presence, I’d have said the former. That is no longer true.