Many people get their news and information from these platforms. This let’s them truly control what people see and think. They can block information about atrocities and feed people misinformation. They’re just doing it more now that they definitely won’t face any repercussions.

They probably have a team of people from the Heritage foundation making the list of banned topics.

That’s the companies decision and they should understand the risks.

If you’re that paranoid about it, then just physically destroy the drive.

Just create aliases with words you’ll remember. Fart, Fart2, ect.

Anything made in the past 10-15 years still works great, I have a couple of really old thin clients that I bought for around $20 and dumped my pis when the prices were way up. One runs octoprint and the other one runs Lubuntu out in the garage so I can look up vehicle specs and other things while I’m out there. I have a fifth Gen Intel laptop that still works great. I have a desktop with a Ryzen 3000 series that works just fine both bought used for under $100. Raspberry pi is good for certain tasks, but using it for a desktop makes little sense. Even now I’m working this message on an Android phone that was around $100 with no issues.

CPU power hasn’t changed much, they’ve added more features over the years, but power hasn’t changed a lot, only Windows has gotten more bloated so you need more ram to run it.

You can also just buy a used laptop or business computer which is infinitely better and cheaper.