The extremist parade of horribles that results from this is laws that mandate private companies host forums for all who ask and social media that is functionall

The extremist parade of horribles that results from this is laws that mandate private companies host forums for all who ask and social media that is functionally unusable because spam filtering is legally indistinguishable from censorship[0]. What we need isn't mandating that Facebook hand everyone a megaphone. What we need is fire exits: alternatives to Facebook that have migration paths that don't result in us losing all contact with our Facebook friends. The problem with Facebook isn't that they can censor you, it's that they're big enough that you have to care if they do. And for the record, there were progressives saying this, too. Most of what I'm saying in this comment is cribbed from Cory Doctorow. [0] Remember when the GOP sued Google because their campaign e-mails got flagged as spam?