The numbers don’t lie–the internet (particularly Facebook) is essentially a playground for the extreme right. Left to his own devices, Mark Zuckerberg would keep it that way, because it makes him money. However, pressures from his employees, and the body politic in general, have forced him to become a censor. The right is outraged, but doesn’t know what to do about it; the threats from Trump and others to repeal Section 230 would only help the left by destroying Facebook’s business model and making right-wing nut jobs more legally accountable for their speech.
What reactionaries want is censorship of the left, not just freedom for themselves. How can they get there? By combining with left-leaning critics of the social media companies, and with Facebook itself, to create a new body of law that transfers internet censorship from the private to the public domain. This is consistent with what is happening in other countries all over the world and is consequently easy to justify. The legislation needs to be broad enough to contemplate a fairly rigorous degree of public interference, with minimal standards on what is unacceptable speech. Then, all they have to do is win an election and pack the new regulatory body with their own kind. At that point, they will have won; woke and socialist thought will disappear from the internet, the Great American Firewall will rise, and Real Americans will have their ideas unquestioned.
Naturally, there will be litigation, but the Supreme Court is dominated by the right. The new regulations will be upheld, and we will have our own updated version of the Alien and Sedition Act.
Once again, the moral of this story for liberals is to be careful what you ask for, because you might get it.