Facebook and Twitter and probably a bunch more are censoring people that I want to hear from, Trump in particular. Chris Wallace had a Facebook censor on Fox this afternoon. Said censor was very firm that Facebook had every right to post who they felt like posting and censor who ever they pleased. Kinda like a newspaper, you get to publish on the op-ed page only if the editor thinks you are good for circulation and not too offensive.
The best fix for this problem is to use the old Sherman Anti-Trust Act to break up the big sites. They are clearly monopolies. Once Facebook or Twitter is broken up into two or three piece, the pieces will have to compete with each other for advertisers and members. One piece or the other piece will decide that giving guys like Trump access is good for business. That’s the proper fix. Unfortunately it won’t happen as long as Biden is president. He and his like the solid leftwing spin that Facebook and Twitter are doing right now and will simply tell the anti-trust division at the Justice Department to lay off. Keep things the way they are. By now, Facebook and Twitter are so big and cover so much of the market that a new startup doesn’t have much chance of getting starting going up against them. Trump might have the money to do a startup, he has talked about it, but that is a very long shot.
The Facebook guy Wallace had on TV suggested that Congress might pass something like a fairness doctrine for Facebook and Twitter. Same objection applies, Biden would veto it.
So until the voters vote in a solid Republican Congress and a Republican president, we are stuck with Facebook’s censorship.
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