The slow march towards censorship?

I've been reading and hearing some disturbing things of late. It seems that people are worried that the free market of ideas has failed. That, because people can join up in groups on the net, and make echo chambers, that, they will never see the reasonable side of things.

Its been said that there is no punishment to producing fake new-stories - the damage is done, so to speak, they get the click, they do not care if its exposed as fake latter, as they can run that story as well, and get that click, the more clicks the more chance for ads to make them money.

In a similar way, there is not any deterrent for those of like-minded people to group on twitter, facebook, and/or any other social media. Yet those that say its bad to have echo chambers can and do also seem to lean towards getting rid of those echo chambers.. thus the slow march towards censorship.

People being banned of pateron/twitter/youtube for views and or ideas that are somewhat mundane and mild, perhaps politically charged - but yet they are banned for seeming non-offense. Meanwhile more and more strong arm against "racist" posts or anything that targets people's identity (sex/race/religion) is a no no. So, when will we no longer be able to say "blah" to religion? Or anything else for that matter?

Yes, people will go to groups and those groups and echo chambers will exist no matter if you ban them off the big platforms or not, in fact, doing so might make them more eager to go into hiding. I'd rather know who is a racist then for that person to be in hiding.

Yet, because we must "protect people" (because like, the block button is just so hard to find) more censorship is being mandated by if not law, then common practice of big name platforms across the board.

The free market of ideas is said to lose to the "bad" ideas, the fear that humans will go to the bad ideas, rather then the good. Yet, in every past civilization having a free market of ideas lead to a golden age... however that was always followed by something bad, so perhaps people are afraid of making the same error?

All I know is that I want a free market of ideas, and that I must hold out hope that logic in the end will prevail, that truth will win. If we censor, we do so at the risk of doing it to our own ideas as well.

That does not bode well in my book.