Let’s take YouTube as an example. Their big weapon against conservative messages is their control over advertising, and their ability to “de-monitize” any videos that they don’t like.
Use anti-trust to break the connection between the video hosting side and the advertising side. Allow others to place ads on videos. If youtube’s in-house ad-placement group chooses to not want to place ads on certain videos, then allow others to do so.
YouTube isnt obligated to pay people to host videos. They never started as a place where that was done.
Before it was bought by Google, YouTube didnt pay anyone for anything. It was just a place to share videos, and they were going broke doing that. That is why they sold.
Google was, and still is, losing money on the site as well, and they use their advertising arm to subsidize the place. They started out paying people who had really popular channels (by invite only), then they did it for anyone (a huge mistake). That is where they started getting into trouble with advertisers. And this goes beyond “political” videos. People were getting ad money from some seriously sick stuff.
But take Google’s money out, and the site goes under in 365 days.
Outside advertising is not going to benefit YouTube, that’s just the person that uploaded a video for free getting paid while not paying a dime for the cost of hosting and streaming those videos. If these guys want this option, then they are going to have to start paying YouTube some sort of subscription for it.