So has the "shyt" finally hit the fan?

I was never a big conspiracy theorist, but always a truth seeker. My instinct for something's "just not right", is spot on and usually it is correct. With that being said, I grew up being taught to have pride in our country and believed we were a country blessed with freedom and rights, I did not realize how much these freedoms were being whittled away under the guise of being done for our "best interest, our safety, protection for our folks". Well here we are today with our precious freedom of speech eroded,censored and manipulated, even our thoughts.
Google and Youtube doing what is in our "best interest" to give us the right news! Here is Eric Schmidt in an article from PC magazine 7 years ago.
https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2369836,00.asp Explains some things, don't you think?