It is currently unsettling that the biggest megaphone of this country is governed by a small group of individuals in Silicon Valley.
Why not nationalize it? Then at least the US constitution would apply, your first amendment rights would be protected, and it would truly be a public space.
Responding to the comment below:
> Nationalize the news? We can be just like Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela!
> Who needs pesky freedom of speech anyway.
We have that dude. Voice of America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America
No one, atleast domestically gives a shit about it. Which is just beautiful! The most American thing ever.
Nationalize the news? We can be just like Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela!
Who needs pesky freedom of speech anyway.
Just regulate it, like we regulate other communication networks.
The phone company can't ban people for political speech from it's phone lines, and the government doesn't run into 1st amendment issues with that.
Let's change the law, so that our existing laws, are expanded to apply to social media companies.
Not necessarily. There is already a texas social media law, that does part of what the anti-censorship crowd wants. The appeals court upheld the law, and the supreme court has not struck it down yet.
That law, in 1 state alone, could have a huge effect on social media pretty soon, already.