Is it Time to Regulate Social Media Like Utilities?
By Betsy McCaughey
Tuesday, 12 January 2021 02:58 PM
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Democracy took a big blow when Twitter shut down President Trump’s accounts and Google and Amazon ousted Parler, a site favored by millions of conservatives.
Big tech, which is run by the left, is robbing Americans of their right to communicate freely and exchange ideas.
The nation’s Founders worried that government would use its power to censure and crush competing viewpoints. Their remedy was the First Amendment, guaranteeing all of us freedom of speech and association and barring government censorship.
The Founders had no way of anticipating that tech companies would grow more powerful than governments, and have the monopolistic ability to suppress or cancel political viewpoints.
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