For a hundred reasons you do not want the government in charge of the press, which would be the effect. What happens when a Democrat becomes President and gets to appoint commissioners to the FCC?
The only solution for the youtube-Google corruption is competing platforms. Otherwise, we are outlawing private businesses' right to disseminate information according to their choosing.
Teddy Roosevelt and the other Progressives were, in their view of business and government, Constitutionally careless and factually wrong in the particulars--manipulated by liars of the time.
Wrong. What’s happening right now with Trump as POTUS? Government is outsourcing totalitarianism. Time and again supporters of Trump are attacked by these Tech robberbarrons. It will be far worse with a Democrat POTUS even with no changes.
The tech oligarchs have no fear because they own Congress. Your “competition” idea is a liberatarian day dream. Goolag and Amazon are the modern day equivalents of Standard Oil. Without a firm response to their civil rights violations they will continue to assault conservatives.
You’re right. I wasn’t thinking clearly, or long term.