I don't give a Continental damn if the feds monitor my Posts. Maybe they'll learn something. I am a responsible adult minding my own business and entitled to express myself until someone shuts me up!

There is no site that is not government monitored.
You can be sure we have our very own alphabet agency stooge logging everything of interest. It’s kind of a game that used to be played at hacker conventions. “Spot the Fed.” Agent Smith has always been here. They are far more concerned about us than they are about AntiFa. For valid reasons too. Most prominent among those reasons, we’re not nearly as stupid. The manipulation techniques have been so effective they’ve got the AntiFascists literally supporting the rise of a 4th Reich. When some began to shake off the programming and protest the current administration “THEY” created schisms in the movement. AntiFa is currently arguing with eachother. That’s why you haven’t seen nearly as much coverage. What little activism is happening on that side is not being covered by the government media. Simple minds. Breaking windows and burning buildings doesn’t really accomplish much in the big scheme of things. Breaking narratives and burning paradigms is much more effective. I could go punch the purple haired kid down the street. But, to what purpose? Is it going to make him “like” me? Probably not. It’s much more effective to never let him be programmed in the first place. Hence the censorship. THEY fought against censorship for decades. Now that THEY are in ascension it’s what THEY want.
It’s not stuff they want. It’s easy to just buy/take stuff. They want your mind.
“The pen is mightier than the sword.” —Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Haven't those who are running the service been forced to pay taxes for the materials and the set-up?

Probably because the tools used to create the site were from a company that has become an obviously corrupt anti-freedom company since the site was created.
My guess is that the effort involved in redesigning the site completely without those tools is prohibitively expensive to the owners of the site.
imo, the site was created as a place to discuss the AS movies when they were being released. The site is not serving that purpose to as great an extent today, imo.
Is there a social media site that is not monitored by the corrupt government?