There is absolutely nothing that stops a conservative from starting a Facebook or Twitter competitor tomorrow, or from buying a broadcast license for a radio or TV station. Heck -- the fortunes of these traditional media outlets like TV and newspapers are so awful that you can buy them cheap.
What you seem to be suggesting is that we're too stupid or disinterested to do that, so we have to force Facebook and Twitter into public utilities.
What would the broadcasting infrastructure for a corporation like ABC cost? Would it be 100 billion?
I don't have 100 billion in my pocket, but I have a dire need to prevent the public from being misled into doing things that will threaten my life in the future. Things like electing a mouthy, arrogant, affirmative action idiot because the "News" people said he was a brilliant genius.
What you seem to be suggesting is that we're too stupid or disinterested to do that, so we have to force Facebook and Twitter into public utilities.
I'm saying that allowing one party to control communications is a recipe for our destruction. I'm saying that I will look favorably upon any means we can find to stop one party control of communications to the American people.
If we can get results that are obtainable within our philosophical framework, then I am happy to do so, but my bottom line is that allowing monopoly control on the means of communicating with the American people is a dire threat to our lives.
If we must go outside of our philosophical framework to accomplish this, then necessity compels.