Step1: For me I distinctly remember a moment in like 10th grade where I said, oh that guy is an idiot and agrees with me. It was the first moment I called into question my political beliefs as a liberal.
Step 2: Was asking questions about obvious hypocrisy over a few years. Namely stuff like why girls get math help when boys don't get writing help. This was important to me as I was still ashamed that I was bad at spelling. But all I ever saw was token lip service and uncomfortable answers.
Step 3: Gamergate. Where people I had agreed with politically had decided that the hypocrisy was exactly what they wanted. And I suddenly rejected the foundation of ideas they had.
Step 4: Trump's election. I called it like a year in advance. Not that I was happy about it. But I recognized the undercurrent that gamergate was with Trump. Where everyone that felt marginalized by the approved hypocrisy was left smolderingly angry. And that Hillary had alienated the Bernie supporters without even attempting to build community support. Now I see TDS, as a comicbook youtube suggested, as brain-damage. Because it proved the world did not run off what the propaganda says and that the foundation of their worldview was flawed. And the stress and fear from that made them double down on it.
So here I am now. A classical liberal that sees a complete lack of either party attempting to promote liberty.
I'm very curious about who knows the reason for his ban. His sponsors removed him, then immediately reinstated him. Which may just be in reaction to him not having a platform to advertise for them, but it could be that they know the reason. The other companies trying to memory-hole him, this could be because they know too. But it might just be that they are opportunists and hate the Doc for likely political reasons. Still the more people at more companies that know will mean that leaks are more likely. So if this was some scorched earth campaign by some SJW that has been emailing big tech companies to get him banned, there will be a leak.
If a leak never happens, that makes it look like a political history purge. Which fits with the modern iconoclasts tearing down statues. Companies that are censoring the Doc now are doing it because they always wanted too and are just using his banning as a chance to.