[Wallace T.]

In the late 19th Century, the railroads regarded themselves as exempt from regulation even though they were effectively monopolies in transporting agricultural or manufactured goods. If you were a rancher in Texas in 1890, you could either use the Texas and Pacific or other local railroads to take your cattle to Fort Worth or Kansas City markets, or go back to what had been done in 1870, drive the cattle hundreds of miles on trails to Kansas rail heads. Weight loss and time spent determined the use of the closer in rail lines. The decision was made on both Federal and State levels to treat the railroads, along with steel, rubber, and other monopolies, as public utilities subject to regulation. Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, etc., are the modern equivalent of railroads.

[Boogieman]

“Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, etc., are the modern equivalent of railroads.”

Then file an anti-trust lawsuit and get them broken up. If you can’t make that case in court, then there really isn’t any basis for government regulation of these particular websites over any others.