>Can they prevent you from learning about a local city council candidate by blocking that person from advertising? Absolutely. If you remove moderation rules,

>Can they prevent you from learning about a local city council candidate by blocking that person from advertising? Absolutely. If you remove moderation rules, there won't be blocking. However we fall in the other extreme with fake news and obsceneties taking over. The loudest and most provocative win because that's what makes the news. At least that's the logic. Is the root of the problem that no one elected Facebook to be moderators? And now that it is so big, it has become a problem because it has an overbearing affect on people? So essentially the monopolistic argument is a justification for government to grab back control. I can't help to see this as a growing pain for global companies becoming bigger than countries. FB has 2.9 billion users. Only 10% are in the US. It has such a reach beyond borders that countries are freaking out, afraid to lose sovereignty over their citizens. Or am I reading too deep here?