Immediately after the Jan. 6 demonstrations at the Capitol, the cabal of “woke” Silicon Valley communications platforms — led by Twitter — banned President Donald J. Trump from ever posting again. This was meant to be punitive. After all, Amazon did roughly the same thing by banning Parler, a civil liberties alternative to Twitter, from the giant firm’s pervasive server farms. That was clearly punitive.
But was the move against Trump really hurtful?
