Of course we know they have ALWAYS operated this way, and they likely knew of the countless pay to play schemes that most career politicians are engaged in for way longer then we did. Certainly, they knew Sleepy Creepy was, when he was on tape bragging about it. But the censorship by big tech, and the black out by the corporate press is bolder and more overt then ever before.
Why would we ever trust these people again? Why would we ever want to reward them with more power?
The MSM oligarchy needs to be broken up. If 5/6 companies own the vast majority of entertainment and collude on news stories and messages, then they are basically acting as a single entity with control over a product: news information. Big tech is not acting in good faith with regards to users of their products and should be stripped of section 230 protections.