I know that The Motte has a lot of libertarian/conservative views here that are generally more thoughtful and after the moves by Twitter and Facebook to ban Trump and Amazon to ban Parler servers etc it made me curious about how the libertarian/conservative perspective sees these decisions.

The premise I'm basing my question on are from the following beliefs: In the simplest terms possible Libertarians tend to be fiscally conservative with laissez faire beliefs on business, true believers of the free market while being more socially liberal. Conservatives tend to be the same except more socially conservative. Low taxes, less federal power are virtuous and directly connected in these belief systems.

I used to be interested in libertarianism but I have since dismissed it as viable because of exactly the sort of situation that has played out recently regardless of the reason behind it. What we have seen here is private businesses that has more power than most nation states who have directly benefited from conservative and libertarian values use their power to supercede that of the most powerful government leader in the country.

Now I'm asking please do not go into the reason for blocking the president and whether it was right or wrong because that conversation is being had all over the place. Whether it was right or wrong doesn't matter here - it was done - and that's my point. This is exactly the sort of logical outcome of tax breaks and deregulation in an age of large private businesses. We were going to reach a point where the government is not as powerful as the private business.

Therefore is this not the logical conclusion of deregulation, lower taxes, and a truly free market? A privatized system where our say as "the people" is locked out in place of privatized will and whim? Isn't this what a libertarian or conservative world is "supposed" to look like where the president can be censored in the name of private enterprise?

If you think that's not the case and that there should be a "balance" or "rights" that are protected then I'm curious what regulations/rights you think should exist to make that balance work. Also, how do you expect a government that is funded by low taxes to enforce these regulations/rights by a more powerful group of businesses who may not agree with these beliefs? How do you prevent the natural conclusion of just removing any regulations/rights in the name of profit?

This has been what has stuck in my craw about libertarian and conservative beliefs over the last decade or so. I've seen the rise of big business and the libertarian/conservative angle has seemed to only support lowering taxes and more deregulation as a result. Even if we end up with monopolies the government is either too bought or too small to break them up. And now we get the first glimpse of where the true power lies. So many right leaning beliefs have been afraid of the power of big government... But what about the unregulated power of big business?