The answer here is not necessarily for the govts to force big $$ platforms to act like neutral carriers, but for govt to enact and encourage policies to stop/sl

The answer here is not necessarily for the govts to force big $$ platforms to act like neutral carriers, but for govt to enact and encourage policies to stop/slow the centralization and monopolization of information and entertainment around centralized $$ platforms, and to prevent such behemoths from sucking all the air out of the room in the first place. (Which, frankly, includes not using said platforms for their own communications. Not sure why Twitter is treated like a generic newswire and announcement system by schools, community groups, governments, etc ... after everything that's happened.) That's the vision we had of the Internet in the 90s: decentralized, publish your own content and link-out to other's. Not sure why we let that get derailed into the closed boxes we have today. Asshats like Alex Jones or Russel Brand wouldn't even be a concern and we wouldn't be talking about "deplatforming" as a thing really if the "platform" hadn't grown so unreasonably big and powerful in the first place. The Age Of Narcissism is entirely our own fault. If you build a huge giant megaphone and leave it lying in the middle of the playground, inevitably some jerk is going to "misuse" it.