Im sorry but I think you are miscatorgizing the Senator from Kentucky.
Rand Paul general rule if it is not specified in the US Constitution that the federal role is hands off. In general there is no laws specifically addressing large institutions forcing pollical content on their user group because the market should see that as a liability and punish that platforms stock price. It is the tone def advertisers who continue to support the a platform that are the problem, guess facebook advertising still moves the needle. But like myspace, facebook will be a thing until it isnt.
Its already baked into the cake....
“Most young adults perceive Facebook as a place for people in their 40s and 50s,” a March presentation from a team of data scientists said, according to The Verge. “Young adults perceive content as boring, misleading, and negative. They often have to get past irrelevant content to get to what matters.”
Or maybe Rand thinks we’re INDESTRUCTIBLE and therefore we can allow the Left to take over institution after institution, including voting (in this case), and, unlike the other 99% of countries where that happens, we’ll be just fine. And given that, then yes, there is no risk in being an idealist.
I guess that’s where I differ from him.