[zionic]

>How can you support free speech but prevent a company from exerting that speech?

Because these "platforms" are in fact utilities.

We have allowed corporations to own and control the common square and bypass rights our forefathers fought wars to establish.

The gov has been all too lenient enforcing laws against these giants because it allows them to censor-by-proxy.

For the left-leaning among, please recall that the definition of fascism is "the merger of state and corporate power".

[Supermancho]

As Thiel says, (in whatever form it ultimately takes) the free market is a selector for monopolies. At peak capitalism, you still have start ups competing with an increasingly low chance of success excepting scandals...which are inevitable in large organizations.

The biggest companies are basically utilities and that will not change anytime soon. The market has resulted in this condition. The government has to play catchup, as usual.