I still think the problem is monopoly. Assuming the company is not coerced by the government, they may be taking orders, but they are cooperating willingly. If there were 5 Facebooks, then maybe one of them wouldn't obey the government's soft directive, and the John Q Publics of the world could have a voice there.
It's entirely too convenient that there's one government and one Facebook. It's entirely too convenient for the censors that they need only convince one shithead (-berg) that the speech needs to be suppressed. And that that same guy gets them reelected.
And monopolies don't exist without public intervention to support them. Otherwise, they are too unwieldy, inefficient, and ineffective to survive on their own.
I still think the problem is monopoly. Assuming the company is not coerced by the government, they may be taking orders, but they are cooperating willingly. If there were 5 Facebooks, then maybe one of them wouldn't obey the government's soft directive, and the John Q Publics of the world could have a voice there.
It's entirely too convenient that there's one government and one Facebook. It's entirely too convenient for the censors that they need only convince one shithead (-berg) that the speech needs to be suppressed. And that that same guy gets them reelected.
That is the problem.
And monopolies don't exist without public intervention to support them. Otherwise, they are too unwieldy, inefficient, and ineffective to survive on their own.