Waiting for the first person to make the argument “they’re a private company”... as if the constitution would permit 3 companies to control the entire nations discourse.
That would be a defacto cartel and is illegal in this country.
These are not merely public companies, these are UTILITIES that should be subjected to the same regulation.
Right here.
I don't condone FB for doing this, BTW.
However...
Here's what you can do.
Think up a nifty website name.
Go to godaddy.com or another host to register.
Hire some programmers.
Create your own social media network.
FR could have been what FB is now, and it still can be.
Some people would support a lesser principle (That global spanning tech companies are "private" property in the normal sense of the word) over that of a greater principle:
That freedom of speech is absolutely essential to a free people.
Yessir.
We need to man-up, swallow hard, and push for legislation declaring these companies to be public utilities who must provide true “net neutrality”.
By the time Conservative alternatives are developed the country will be lost. Don’t let the Alinskyites hoist us on the petard of our own virtue.
American business needs to learn the hard way that too often they’ve backed the wrong horse.