[nataliste]

The answer to all of this is to create a federal social media framework modeled after the USPS. This allows private corpos to do their curation but creates an actual public square where speech is free.

[krapp]

That wouldn't be the answer for the simple reason that no one would use such a network.

The government wants to regulate private social media because that's where the people are, and thus that's where the influence is.