The "private firms can do whatever they want" is sort of my default in the abstract too, but it doesn't scale especially in monopoly / near-monopoly situations. That's where the old 'fairness doctrine' era came from with limited airwaves, after all. 1/

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“oh but how would you feel if congress asked news companies to testify about editorial decisions, hnnnr smart guy?” fine, actually. great. they can then explain how social platforms and news and media companies are governed by different standards

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i doubt meta broke any laws by pulling the no kings accounts down during the protests and i think zuckerberg should go to congress and explain that the company can do whatever they want to stifle dissent they disagree with or find a threat to their business

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Compromised platforms are not to be trusted with your content.

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Electric utilities can't choose which houses to serve based on 'content' the owners put out somewhere. Technologically, Walmart could probably prevent registered Democrats from shopping there if it really wanted to, and if it tried I but we'd outlaw that if it iasn't already illegal 2/

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