[ciarannolan]

>Free speech does not mean that you have the right to say or distribute whatever you want on whatever platform, owned by a private corporation you want.

Most people understand this. It doesn't need to keep being repeated in every thread.

Facebook isn't bobsmessageboard.com. The debate is over whether it is a de facto public communications utility and should be regulated as such, or if it is private company that is free to do whatever it wants on it's platform.

[SV_BubbleTime]

I’m quite free market... but in this case Google with its infinite resources tried to take just a piece of the Facebook pie and failed miserably.

If Google can’t compete with them - then SocialSite5000 startup has no shot in hell.

Facebook is unfortunately a monopoly. We can wait it out, but they are in a position to keep their advantage for generations so I don’t think that’s entirely reasonable.

If there are a monopoly, then they should be held to the ideals of common carrier and free speech and platform vs publisher, etc.