Stop pretending that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTub are merely private entities. They are the major conduit for information. Rolling over and playing dead to support leftist control the flow of information is a disgusting abdication of our responsibility as citizens.
There is no such thing as a free press when leftists control all the avenues of dissemination. You may be OK with the first amendment in name only, a system perfected by Nazis, the Maoists, and Stalinists, but conservatives will not stand for a Potemkin village media.
Stop this despicable attempt to delegitimize those of us working to ensure the free flow of information, to protect first amendment rights that are true in practice, not just in theory.
Sorry that you think this way. We can agree to disagree, and what I don't do (use social media) will not affect your efforts to nationalize publicly traded companies. I also have privacy issues with social media. I am not going to spend my time on social media so advertising is pushed at me and my private information is sold and resold. I don't want anyone knowing my location, what I am doing, how I spend money, and who I am associating. I suppose that it is despicable that I want privacy. It is despicable that I do not want government regulation, or worse yet, private-public partnerships. Because once government starts to regulate social media and free speech then they will have access to that speech and privacy goes out the window.
The notion of private-public collaboration for the purpose of free speech is nothing more than corporatism, better know as fascism. In the end, those leftist private companies will still be making money off your speech, and that money will be sent to Washington to control politicians. If you want social media that is more free and open, make the switch to better platforms and starve the leftists that dominate now. I refuse to feed the enemy and make them stronger. I don't compromise. I just don't use social media. That way I can live with myself knowing that I am not some useful idiot of the left.
So who is really despicable?