“No, they are not obligated to provide access to everyone, they simply become legally liable for speech on their platform once they assume a certain level of editorial control.”
While your point is true corporate-owned social media has become the de-facto public square and if Americans are to remain free, laws will have to crafted that ensure that social media sites that have a monopolistic position cannot infring upon the rights of Americans. You may not like it but it is coming because the tech masters of the universe need to be brought to heel.
Amen. The big Tech companies are effectively monopolies in their individual areas....Facebook, Twitter, Youtube/Google, utterly dominate their respective spheres. They need to either be broken up or barred from censoring in any way, anything but clearly illegal speech (ie terrorism, child porn, making terroristic threats).
They are making so many enemies with their assembling of private information about people and censorship as well as the fact that they are monopolies, that before long they will be severely regulated by the feds. They’re just too arrogant to stop making enemies - thus ensuring there will be political support to regulate the hell out of them.
“You may not like it but it is coming because the tech masters of the universe need to be brought to heel.”
Well, excuse me if I’m not too enthused about conservatives talking about bringing private businesses “to heel” by granting more power to the federal government.