Thats the thing, it is not a Free Market. Social Media companies like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube say they are an ‘open platform’ where users can create and distribute content as required by law, yet all act as Publishers, exercising editorial control over that content. They can’t have it both ways. These Social Media giants can be a ‘Distributor’ with an open forum or a ‘Publisher’ exercising editorial control — they cant be both. Either they are an Open Forum or they are not.
The Claim of being an ‘Open Platform’ gets them legal immunity for whatever they post yet in action none of them are open forums. Each Companies ‘Terms Of Service’ (ToS) must be rational, nonpartisan and equally applied to all users, it is not. It’s time for Washington to remove that immunity and give Users back their power _ Let the lawsuits begin.