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>The major social media platforms are, in some hard-to-define way, essential to modern life. Call them town squares. Call them infrastructure. They exist in some nether region between public utility and private concern. They are too important to entrust to billionaires and businesses, but that makes them too dangerous to hand over to governments. We have not yet found a satisfying answer to the problem of their ownership and governance.

We had this problem with television and radio. We privatized them in the US and the regulated them with the FCC. Why is this not possible with social media platforms and why wouldn’t it work effectively?