[AnotherUnixGeek]

That’s how you win in the free market, both in business and in ideas.

This is like saying that if GM, Ford and Chrysler in 1965 openly discriminated against conservatives (or blacks or Jews or any other category of people), then the solution would be to start a new car company. The easier solution is to apply regulations and legislation that make it too painful for the existing companies to discriminate. The social media giants form an effective monopoly - the decades it would take to form alternatives are decades in which conservatives can be silenced and marginalized. This is simply not acceptable.

[2aProtectsTheRest]

Decades of piling on rules, regulations, and taxes intended to produce “better outcomes” is how we got into this mess where it’s so difficult for anyone to be in business without an army of lawyers standing by to help navigate the minefield of government intrusion. We should be killing as much regulation as we can, not looking for new and interesting ways to add even more.