Interesting take, thank you. There's still a big difference: for us, privately owned companies with whose publications we struggle have been with us for a ver

Interesting take, thank you. There's still a big difference: for us, privately owned companies with whose publications we struggle have been with us for a very long time. Germany, where I'm from, has a more nuanced concept of free speech than the US, legally banning a greater (but overall still very small) number of topics or expressions. However, outright banning of a media company is essentially impossible: prosecutors can only go after individual publications. They are using the same regulations to go after Facebook posts as they use to go after newspaper articles, As you might imagine it's not working out, because of sheer volume among other factors. So they've recently created a new law to simplify oversight over social media. However this is not really a surprising new development. We're not "starting to see these problems", we've struggled with these problems throughout the existence of the German Republic. Technology is currently changing their shape, as it has before (e.g with the advent of private TV), and we're changing our approach to match. Nothing to see here, really.