Social media Corporations: Big Brother Censors

Social media corporations are publishers, not just platforms, and must stop receiving protections they do not deserve.

They must be held liable for the content on their sites, especially in light of the fact that they allow an enormous amount of hate, bigotry and incitement to violence to be published while they arbitrarily remove and block other content that they find offensive.

They are the world's largest, greediest spreaders of hate, bigotry and incitement to violence. At the same time, they have ceased to be platforms for free speech, openness and transparency by their arbitrarily blocking content that does not promote hate, bigotry or incitement to violence.

Social media corporations are killing free speech and religious freedom.

These corporations need to be reigned in and regulated.

Controlling the dissemination of information and disinformation gives these corporations a level of power that helps strongman dictatorships and religious theocracies, and that destroys democracies, free speech and religious freedom.

At the bare minimum, a special tax must be levied on these corporations to fund an independent organization(s) that will:

1. ensure social media corporations do not disseminate hate, bigotry and incitement to violence.
2. ensure social media corporations do not block and censor content arbitrarily that does not promote hate, violence and incitement to violence. .
3. ensure a legitimate avenue is provided for contesting when content is blocked that does not promote hate, violence and incitement to violence.