This. Youtube, fb & such have monopolized online media. Then these problems "crop up," many as side effects of their own antipatterns. Now they have the publi

This. Youtube, fb & such have monopolized online media. Then these problems "crop up," many as side effects of their own antipatterns. Now they have the public and politicians lobbying beseeching them to please do something... They're being handed the power to censor us, to deal with problems that they themselves create. There is a big difference between facebook and a Standard Oil or a Bell. Those companies were necessary. Post breakup, we still needed shards to produce oil, phone lines and such. If facebook was crushed to dust, there would be no shortage of social media.