Are We Creating the Ideal Conditions of Speech?

i'm really interested because i engage on twitter and obviously through potcasting, and i somewhat naively think of myself as an equal voice. But i've been accused of using my platform with quite a large number of followers in the philosophy world. If i engaged with somebody with whom i disagree, they sometimes say, well, you should be softer with somebody who's obviously not got the power that you have. It looks like equals having a conversation, but it's actually somebody doing it in public with a lot more people on their side. And i'm just a small fry in another i'mjust a tiny fish in another word, wy somebody else might do that to me. I think