Do you really want to live in a world where regressive left thugs are able to get essential service providers to unperson somebody because they don’t like their political views?
I want even less to live in a world where private property rights are disregarded.
social media platforms that are so important to modern life they ought to be considered public utilities.
In the case of public utilities, the physical disruption of e.g. laying multiple phone/power line grids was something we decided we wanted to avoid. No such physical disruption is required for new social media platforms.
If we make "important to modern life" the basis for socializing property, we've opened a Pandora's box; medical care is important to modern life, but conservatives don't want socialized medicine.
If you use the ‘private companies can do what they want’ line, the next thing the left will be doing is preventing dissidents from being able to use bank accounts or get mortgages.
There are many banks, and they've amply proved they'll take anybody's money - it's government that stops them from e.g. opening accounts for state-legal marijuana businesses.
These are NOT privately held companies any longer they are publicly held companies AND listed on the stock exchange!!! FR is not!!!