I fought the PayPal and I won

There was a crowdfunding which was successful, they charged all of us, told the creator they were sending the money, then after a week canceled the crowd funding and refunded our money.

According to their TOS, they were NOT a party to the contract we had with the creator and forced arbitration, so we fought it. Each participant (200+ iirc) each had to pay $200 while IGG had to pay the other $2300/participant (~$460k) to get the arbitration initiated. Then they tried to push it to a class action (to simplify their legal battle) but according to their own TOS a class action was not allowed so that died quickly.

So then we collectively worked through one firm who iterated on our filings based on how each one went.

After a year+, IGG finally unlocked the creator's account, issued an apology, and updated their TOS. Insiders at IGG claim that the legal bill was into the millions.

It's not easy but you can fight bad behavior from these guys.

They will find subtle ways to force-link your real bank account to paypal, and then its game over. They have the keys to the kingdom.

One day you will get some random charge on your account that keeps growing and growing and you don't recognize the transaction at all, but you can't do anything because they can pay themselves from your linked bank account.

I advise all businesses that use paypal that at worst case, link a completely unrelated bank institution to paypal, and then keep this secondary bank to low funds as often as possible.

Otherwise, you will never know when paypal may poison the well and your physical bank business operating account is suddenly unavailable!

Your list didn't include federated systems like Mastadon or IRC. It didn't include open source systems like Zulip that you can host yourself.

I don't use one of the big email providers, so I do get bounces when an organization thinks my ISP is untrusted. But that's not "can't even send e-mails if private companies don't like your 'sender reputation'" only "can't send e-mails to some people". And those people decided to use that system in part because they want the email provider to filter out some of their email.

We are not in a world where "all Radio and TV channels, newspapers and billboards are owned by private corporations." Member-supported radio and TV, and college radio, are still things, as is community/public-access cable.

Further, how do you want to change it? Do you want a government station which is required to be open access so anyone can broadcast anything?

Universities and similar venues for public speaking have always had the right to choose who they invite to speak. This is what freedom of association means.

Also, they are not a "law unto themselves". There are limits on the types of speech they can prohibit - a public university is restricted by civil rights laws, as is a private/non-publicly funded school which allows public rental of a space.

How do you want to change it? Do you want them colleges to be forced to accept any speaker on any topic, whatsoever?

We see events like the Gathering of the Juggalos, with 20,000 people, and wonder what you mean by 'only the absolute richest people could hold an event of any scale on land they own themselves.'

And I already commented on your "As it's private land" in my "fantasy libertarian future where everything has been privatized" - as something we aren't close to doing.

Yes, I totally agree that privatization of public spaces is something I don't like, though I'll point out the oddity of how the privately-owned public space at Zuccotti Park was a better site for the Occupy Wall Street protest than a public park, because the latter had curfews.