Commentary Most people are by now aware that the mainstream digital platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter—don’t respect freedom of speech and have become venues for comprehensive restriction, suppression, and censorship. This censorship is pervasive, multilayered, and involves an increasingly wide range of topics: election fraud, COVID-19, issues of transsexuals and sexual orientation, Black Lives Matter, climate change, and so on. Many people have their own personal story of how they, or people they know, were arbitrarily restricted. One guy gets flagged for saying that men can’t be women. Another is penalized for describing what he personally witnessed during the 2020 election. A third is deplatformed for saying something negative about Black Lives Matter. This, in some respects, is the Sovietization of America. Genuine debate and conversations go underground, because they can’t take place in what is now our shared public square. Still, for those who haven’t experienced the arbitrariness, the Orwellian …