re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There is the issue of the monopoly status enjoyed by the major Internet social and messaging platforms, but we must look on this as an anti-trust matter and not conflate it with the First Amendment.

The problem with going at these companies from the antitrust angle is that…well…they’re not charging anybody for their services. Other than Musk’s ongoing attempt to do so with Twitter, the biggest problem with the others is that they horde and sell user data. And the answer to that is the same as the antitrust problem: “Don’t use them.” As somebody who’s been on public message boards for much of my life, “You should be able to say whatever you want on the Internet” is a serious hard sell.