Social Media Corporations: Big Brother Knows Best

 Social media giants are monopolies. Unlike monopolies of the past, there is no effort to break up social media monopolies. 'They are untouchable.

Social media corporations are protected beyond reason. They profit from published content, They censor content they do not like that has nothing to do with hate or the advocation of violence. Unlike conventional publishing companies, social media corporations are free of liability regarding the content they publish. 

The inability to sue these companies for the content they publish emboldens them. They censor whatever does not serve their political, religious and other narratives. They are big brother that controls access to information and that manipulates narratives. 

Screening out hate and the advocation of violence is reasonable, which these companies have failed miserably at. They go further, and are censoring content that has nothing to do with hate or the advocation of violence, under the guise that it does. They censor whatever does not suit their views.

One example is in regards to blasphemy. It is as if a theocracy now runs the United States. People are censored, punished and even killed in Pakistan and in some other countries for blasphemy. Blasphemy is not a crime yet in the United States. In the eyes of the social media giants, only they - no different than Pakistan's clerics, Iran's mullahs and other theocrats - can decide what people should think and say about religion. 

Democracy and freedom cannot coexistent with a few powerful corporations controlling information. Break up the social media monopolies. Make them responsible for the content they publish. Regulate how they wrongly censor content by regulating them.  Undo the huge mistake of letting these corporations become monopolies.