Yes, and social media deliver on that wish by punishing nuanced opinions and anything which is not the lowest common denominator.
And they did that from the very beginning.
In the olden days what was acceptable on a web forum was defined by its owner and some mods. Everything had an alternative, people would communicate over few systems simultaneously - the forums themselves, ICQ, mail. When you were banned on some forum, you didn't lose anyone of the people there.
It was certain that you can't silence someone just by banning them. And conflicts were regular, so somebody and their friends would be banned or leave some place, but they were still part of a larger social fabric on some subject.
Social media style hate storms and insularity actually were discouraged. They bothered the mods, other people and in general were stopped by banning all participants for a month or so in the specific place the argument happened.
And what's the normal behavior for social media today was unambiguously considered trolling back then. All of it.
When normies came to social media, they realized that now yes, you can silence anyone you don't like, just have more friends or gaslight more strangers and that's it. And you can troll as much as you want if it attracts more attention. In a social network there's only one authority.
It was false in the beginning, people were not effectively silenced, and disinformation wasn't that strong, but with more people moving to social media it became true.