"Well the Mastodon non-profit isn't responsible because they don't control who runs a server and you can run a server from anywhere because it's not centralized and--" Kid they're building concentration camps in swamps and the Supreme Court would let the President shoot Congress if they could.
Considering Trump flat out said "I'm allowed to do what I want cuz I'm the president" if he wanted to, I wouldn't want to be the guy who has to tell him he can't do it
The reason we're very doom and gloom is that ten years ago it was 100% clear that these state-by-state internet regulations were blatant violations of the 1st Amendment. No one in a million years thought SCOTUS would simply decide "lol, lmfao." Failure of imagination, I suppose.
None of us had been recently struck on the head with a comically large wrench either, so how would we have come up with that?