[username90]

If tech companies instead shut down people clamoring for unions and worker rights then you'd see the left rushing to introduce measures like the one signed by Donald Trump right now. So this is really a bipartisan issue and not just a right wing one, we should all work together to regulate the power of big tech. They might be mostly well-intentioned today, but it is best we regulate them before they have a chance to turn bad.

[natechols]

What about those of us who do not identify as "left" or "right" and would prefer that both gangs leave the Internet alone?

[username90]

Tech companies are way too powerful to be left alone. With great power comes great regulations, as they say.

[natechols]

That's an entirely subjective opinion - and one that should ideally be left up to voters and/or their elected representatives, not to any single individual (like our president, or unelected bureaucrats in the FTC/FCC/etc.). And I continue to maintain that it's insanity to be terrified of Twitter's power when the government can order any one of us killed or locked up indefinitely and there are zero consequences when they screw up.

[carapace]

> down people clamoring for unions and worker rights

If those people are lying egregiously to do it then, sure, shut them down too.

[jwalgenbach]

Start by repealing the Citizens United ruling. If corporations can't have free speech, then this isn't an issue.