You don't have free speech. You lost your right toe in a gun. You can't say what you want you can't even eat at a restaurant. You get banned from everything if you protest against the regime.. you're basically a slave.. and poor people in China are forced to work so miserably that they literally contemplate suicide.. but it's okay because you can choose which brand of 4K television you want and you have 30 different flavors of ice cream!!
It's totally not meant to pacify you while they screw you over!!
We need free speech platforms, the reason they don't work is that given facts and logic, the left cannot win, the leftist ideology can only propagate through censorship and propaganda. So 1/3 of the population will leave free speech sites (the left), 1/3 doesn't care and just follows the biggest platform (centrists), and the remaining third (us), who do care and try to persuade through reason, logic, and evidence, seem to be completely okay with the censorship and continue using big tech sites that fuck them over. Even pedes here complain about getting banned from FB or post tweets. We have no hope as long as we keep feeding the machine that destroys us.