Absolutely agree. They are behaving as a publisher, ( choosing who and what to publish) but want to be treated as a utility ( no responsibility for what digital content goes over their platform). They cant have it both ways. They have a complete monopoly on content on those few social media platforms right now.
Those people saying conservatives just need to start an alternative to FB and let the free market solve it, I say ok, are you doing that? I seriously doubt it. Good luck with that!
They’re monopolies. Even if you create an alternative, which there are, you need to achieve a critical mass of users before people will consider switching. It’s similar to creating a new Operating System, you won’t get users unless there’s applications and the app developers won’t write apps for it unless there’s users.
At this point FB has no viable peer.