I think it's all a preplanned counter-coup from the IT tycoons in revenge for Trump's cheek in using their own platforms to stage his own coup and the Charlotteville controversy was used as the starting gun for this massive censorship blitz.



If they could use a world controversy as a conduit for their blitz, then the only coherent backlash would be limited to these already demonised "alt-right" types. Charlotteville was that controversy.



It seems the Wild West era of relative internet freedom that we've hitherto enjoyed is coming to an end.