Yeah but you get no independence that way. Slip up and post the wrong "badspeak" phrase of the month? Shadow banned. As long as content is sitting underneath a huge lingering banhammer, the content will never be as raw and authentic as content was back in 2006. This reinforces the echo chamber issue and also makes the internet feel contrived and soulless.
Getting banned isn't an issue for most people, at least not under the politically driven terms you're describing (just look at the kind of extremist content than flies on Twitter), but even thought banning exists (and it did on the "old" web as well) there's still far more authentic content out there than ever. It just happens that the web is more complex than it was in 2006, and far more culturally culturally diverse, and most people can be authentic on the internet now without also being edgelords or pushing the bounds of TOS.
