[Its All Over Except ...]

The either/or argument of do we go with either free speech or platform rights may have come to an end.

Are social media platforms like Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and so on such an intrinsic part of life now that people have a right to them as much as they have a right to a first amendment and that rules protecting speech, period, should be drawn up?

Where I am on that I have not decided as of yet but something has to be done...

[Windflier]

Are social media platforms like Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and so on such an intrinsic part of life now that people have a right to them as much as they have a right to a first amendment and that rules protecting speech, period, should be drawn up?

Those platforms have evolved into much more than simple social media sites. They now host most meaningful communications in our society, including the vast bulk of business marketing and advertising.

Note the precise harm that was just done to Steven Crowder by YouTube (owned by Google). They essentially put him out of business for expressing ideas that the management of YouTube is ideologically opposed to.

YouTube has done that to many conservatives who've risen to prominence on their platform. A platform that now resembles a public utility, more than it does a free video upload site.