They are a private company they can do what they want
Anything they want? You mean like interfere in an election? Haven’t we been told for 4 years that is a crime?
Today they shadowed banned Levin. Couple days ago they Banned a 29,000 women in the New Jersey for Trump women club. Have they banned any Fake Newers for spreading the false Trump-Russia conparcy for 4 years? Nope. The Democrats in Big Tech are acting in partisan manner. Any conservative who supports this type of behavior is a fool.
You misunderstand me. I don’t support this activity. But I do respect private property rights. Ordinarily I might say “let the free market settle it” but these companies have become monopolistic and predatory.
I was responding to the poster who mentioned repealing section 230. My thoughts are, if you open these companies up to liability for 3rd party posts, they will become shells of what they are now. Maybe that is what some people want. It’s not what I want, per se, unless the market decides these platforms are manipulating not just elections but the thoughts and information feeds to billions of people on earth. It is one giant MK Ultra experiment. Too bad more people don’t realize it. I am not on any of these major platforms and never was.
So my opinion is, force them to act like public utilities. They can’t, and don’t, shut off your power, phone or internet because they don’t like your dinner conversation or the newspaper you read. These platforms should be treated the same way. They should not be allowed to interfere with the free and open conversations and flow of information in any way, and heavily fined (or, sued) if they do.
And FWIW, that’s a separate argument than the antitrust matters. Twitter is probably not an anti-trust case they are just one platform. But facebook, google, amazon, apple and others are monopolistic and predatory. They should be broken up into small bits, and in the case of Amazon at least in such a way that the bits will compete with each other. There is plenty of precedent for this, from the railroads to Standard Oil to the movie industry and even more recently the case against Microsoft. The suit against Google is just the beginning of the problems with big tech controlling information, thought, speech, advertising, news and more.