Republicans - advocators of free market & small government. Do you feel that Facebook, Twitter & other social media platforms should be allowed to set

I feel that they have become monopolies grown so monstrous in size they need to be downsized, like Ma Bell, which was cut into two parts, AT&T and Verizon. Too much power concentrated into an obviously politically motivated website is never a good thing.

Originally they were given some very special exemptions from the law, so that their users could not sue them for cancelling their accounts. I think it was called Section 230.

Now, their original terms of service have become ill defined, and slippery at best. Users content can be edited, therefore these social media websites have become editors. If they are editors, they no longer qualify under Section 230 to be exempt from lawsuits.

In some instances, users accounts have been deleted and restored in a fashion that would affect the dissemination of crucial information to voters during elections, such as the elimination of the New York Post account during the Biden election, because they aired a true report of Biden's son's shenanigans and published a report that Biden himself, using the name, The Big Guy, was skimming 10% from what Hunter made.

Newspaper accounts actually made money from their exposure on twitter and face book, due to increased exposure, and lost money when the Woke websites shut them down.

These were not just algorithms at work. This was active human intervention, as we saw in the case of Senator Tim Scott, whose rebuttal speech to Biden's State of the Union address received a barrage of racist responses on Twitter, where the racial slur "Uncle Tim" and "Oreo" were left up for ELEVEN hours.

Conservatives whose political views were upsetting to the Marxist left, on the other hand, were taken down within minutes.

WEEKS would go by while those same conservatives and newspapers would demand to know specifically WHY they were shut down for violations of.....WHAT TOS???? In other words, asking what they had said that was so wrong? In the end, reluctantly, Facebook and Twitter would restore their accounts, with a resounding...."Ooops!"