Those constraints apply ONLY to the Federal Government and the States.
Should anyone succeed in forcing Facebook to treat its conservative members fairly, you can rest assured the left will come for sites like this one and force the smaller players to accept noxious left-wing content. As long as FB is a private-sector business, government shouldn't force content.
Other than the Ayres-era FoxNews, the so-called right wing has never realized the need for multiple strong media outlets.
“As long as FB is a private-sector business, government shouldn’t force content. “
1. Facebook controls access to 2 billion people. That’s a media monopoly, even upon the assumption somebody could build a comparable platform to compete. The fait acompli is 2 billions users.
2. One could make a good argument that Facebook is in a completely different class than all other content providers. Only Drudge and Google/Youtube have anything approaching their control over the information landscape.
They are a monopoly “social network”. The only question is whether they should be broken up, or regulated.
But it’s time for the DOJ to write that legal logic and file the suit.