> Why do we willingly allow private governments, especially those with an enormous amount of power over people? Who would ever want these companies with hundred

> Why do we willingly allow private governments, especially those with an enormous amount of power over people? Who would ever want these companies with hundreds of millions to a billion+ users to be allowed to censor other than complying with local laws? It's because people confuse the law with the principles it was meant to implement, so they stop their analysis after they've determined legality/illegality. Hypothetically, you could engineer away freedom of speech and freedom of assembly without changing the Constitution at all, if one corporation owned all the land and all the communication facilities in the US. It could enact a draconian, ideological censorship regime just by exercising its property rights, and that would be Constitutionally kosher because it's not an organization classified as "government." Antitrust law, etc. is not part of the Constitution and could Constitutionally be repealed or gutted. The Constitution was written to prevent many particular forms of tyranny and violations of rights, but it doesn't protect from all of them. That's why you can't stop with it; oftentimes you have to look deeper.