It hasn't. Monopolies have become powerful, then been disassembled before, and it can happen again.
Standard Oil was broken up, as was Bell Systems.
With some new legislation and lawsuits, we could absolutely reduce the power of Google/YouTube and Facebook over online communications.
I agree that those entities have already become far too powerful, but we can remove their power, and shred them into smaller pieces if we had the will to.
I agree that we may not have the will.
But I disagree that the solution is to put more constraints on the speech rights of private entities. You don't fight censorship with compelled speech. You fight monopolies with aggressive anti-trust legislation and action.
It hasn't. Monopolies have become powerful, then been disassembled before, and it can happen again.
Standard Oil was broken up, as was Bell Systems.
With some new legislation and lawsuits, we could absolutely reduce the power of Google/YouTube and Facebook over online communications.
I agree that those entities have already become far too powerful, but we can remove their power, and shred them into smaller pieces if we had the will to.
I agree that we may not have the will.
But I disagree that the solution is to put more constraints on the speech rights of private entities. You don't fight censorship with compelled speech. You fight monopolies with aggressive anti-trust legislation and action.