Total BS. Those websites are privately owned. They can restrict any speech no speech my speech or your speech. That is their constitutional right. CENSORSHIP as understood via the US Constitution is when the government restricts speech. The government is not restricting anyone’s free speech rights on the internet. But net neutrality is all about censorship.
You have it upside down.
i disagree, they have become utilities.
They are necessary now for commerce, communication, and daily living.
Just like ATT and others, privately owned and now regulated as utilities. They provide services, not censorship.
The government would not permit censorship. Censorship would occur at the consumer level.
"The irony of world history turns everything upside down. We the 'revolutionists', the 'rebels' - we are thriving far better on legal methods than on illegal methods and revolt. The parties of order, as they call themselves, are perishing under the legal conditions created by themselves. They cry despairingly with Odilon Barrot: ''la légalité nous tue'', legality is the death of us; whereas we, under this legality, get firm muscles and rosy cheeks and look like eternal life."
"Let them nevertheless put through their anti-revolt bills, make them still worse, transform the whole penal law into india-rubber, they will achieve nothing but a new proof of their impotence. In order seriously to hit Social Democracy, they will have to resort to quite other measures."
This is why they all want an internet takeover including Zuckerberg. If they can merge government with tech, they know then win.
I'm not sure how people around here came to believe that somehow increasing government, putting them into "utilities" or anything else, is somehow a loss. For Facebook, being turned into a utility is "eternal life", to quote Friedrich Engels.