Yeah....I disagree. On all counts. Free Republic and other message boards can and do edit content. There are zillions of message boards and the barriers to entry for starting up a message board are incredibly low.
Not so with facebook. Not so with Google/Youtube or Twitter. They don’t have any real competitors worthy of the name, and due to network effect the barriers to entry are quite high. ie everybody is on youtube because everybody is on youtube. Others have technology that’s just as good.
Big Tech needs to be reined in. The only way to do that is with federal regulation which should be enacted. These are media companies, not merely conduits. They plainly DO have editorial control as every ban, suspension, demonetization and shadow ban amply demonstrates.
Government regulation of free speech has never been a good idea. I don’t care if Facebook or twitter censors my posts. If they keep it up they will eventually go the way of My Space. Don’t get the government involved. The government is not your friend or protector. Giving the government this kind of regulatory power over the internet will not end well.