Monday, December 16, 2019

The Unaccountable Social Media Monopolies That Control Information

Social media monopolies are unwilling to spend time and money to differentiate between speech that promotes hate and violence, and speech defined as offensive because someone disagrees with the opinions expressed.

They are shutting down legitimate criticisms and enforcing blasphemy restrictions without avenues to contest such decisions.

Since the business interests that control the U.S. government are unwilling to regulate the social media monopolies like a utility company, or break them up, there is a third avenue that should be pursued. These social media monopolies must not continue as anonymous giants in which no human being can be reached by phone. They must be held accountable for their arbitrary censorship decisions, and they must become like other companies in which there are actual people with whom there can be communication. It is inexcusable that these multi billionaire dollar social media monopolies control the flow of information and its dissemination, and yet remain unaccountable and unreachable.

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