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I can buy the argument that they could require special treatment but I'm much more sceptical that social media specifically resembles a public utility. If I de
by TheOperator 6y ago
I can buy the argument that they could require special treatment but I'm much more sceptical that social media specifically resembles a public utility.
If I decide Facebook and all it's products are trash I can pretty trivially not use any of them. If I dislike all social media I can choose not to engage with it at all. I would have a much harder time going without electricity or water.
Social media feels somewhere between a public commons and print media, and it's acting more and more like print media all the time. I'm seeing this election the banning of certain sources like the New York Post and the editorialization of what people say with friendly links to approved "non-partisan fact checkers" who are essentially opinion columnists that cite more sources.
Netflix is about as close to a public utility as the local movie theatre, which is to say, nowhere close.