Note that this is part of a concerted effort on behalf of the Big Tech stacks to limit competition. The objective is partly ideological - to enforce a PC censorship regime, as we well know from the events of the last two years. But it also represents a collusion between the major actors to keep all competitors out of the space. This warrants antitrust investigations and serious measures being taken against the stacks once they are determined to be guilty, which is virtually assured given a thorough investigation (they've practically bragged about what they're doing in public, then look at the internal leaks like Google's 'good censor', they met before the election to discuss concerted censorship efforts, etc).
It should also be noted that the Big Tech stacks are not and have never been 'private companies' in the classic sense, they received seed money from the intelligence community (DARPA. CIA, etc) and ultimately are wards of the state, i.e. taxpayers. So their claims of absolute, private jurisdiction are specious. Not only this but they continue to be subsidized by US taxpayers to the tune of $billions each year (server farms cost a lot of money and these parasites try to get munis to pay for them, etc).
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Note that this is part of a concerted effort on behalf of the Big Tech stacks to limit competition. The objective is partly ideological - to enforce a PC censorship regime, as we well know from the events of the last two years. But it also represents a collusion between the major actors to keep all competitors out of the space. This warrants antitrust investigations and serious measures being taken against the stacks once they are determined to be guilty, which is virtually assured given a thorough investigation (they've practically bragged about what they're doing in public, then look at the internal leaks like Google's 'good censor', they met before the election to discuss concerted censorship efforts, etc).
It should also be noted that the Big Tech stacks are not and have never been 'private companies' in the classic sense, they received seed money from the intelligence community (DARPA. CIA, etc) and ultimately are wards of the state, i.e. taxpayers. So their claims of absolute, private jurisdiction are specious. Not only this but they continue to be subsidized by US taxpayers to the tune of $billions each year (server farms cost a lot of money and these parasites try to get munis to pay for them, etc).