Quote Originally Posted by davsel View Post
Thanks for the recap - I had not been paying attention to the fact certain websites were being denied across the board.

I'd suggest bankrupting the big guys with accessory to _____________ (assault, murder, child sexual assault, etc.) for providing links and platforms for these various crimes. Just a thought.
As shitty as this sounds, the only solution I see is to acknowledge BigTech succeeded in moving the marketplace of ideas to cyberspace and treat these socials like a utility which includes end-to-end access from posting to unrestricted audience.

And that is exactly what is being explored right now hence the Congressional hearings.

If the socials are peer-to-peer communication networks then this makes sense as they are communication facilitators. If the socials are content owners (which is what they claim by ToS) then they have a big problem because (like you said) they have to own the illicit content they allow. They have also acted (together) to maintain a monopoly on social media communication even collaborating their political attacks together.