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It is simple, not necessarily easy. It is not free or immediate at their size. In many ways their size makes the matter more complicated, as the contract negotiation for existing hosts grows more complex the larger you are and the number of people who can provide you what you want is fewer...

Server Space can be either setup or located in any of thousand different places. You could have it setup in any of a hundred countries, for reasonable costs, and only requiring a fair business internet connection. Amazon has a huge installation base with relatively low cost, but they are far...

Your two examples are both utilities and built around natural monopolies based on physical infrastructure. Neither are true with social media platforms. Even internet access itself isn't acknowledged as a utility or governed by those rules. Beyond that, you can lose internet access for a...

But in that analogy, the public park is a common public good held in common and paid for by local taxes or possibly a trust setup when the land was donated. The social media platform is a private enterprise paid for by private individuals. Are you trying to imply that Social Media Companies...

No, that isn't how things would go at all. It is far more likely they'd go with sponsored or created content, ideally with disabled ads if possible. Which works out well for the sponsor'ed creator(s), but it doesn't net the platform dime one. Assuming they do them at all. Because while it is...

The problem is that truly unregulated platforms are basically impossible to meaningfully monetize. Not that most publishers are doing all that well in journalism either, but this would be an order of a magnitude worse. If we have a Not-Twitter that will allow any sort of speech, who is going...

And honestly, I am nervous with people putting up videos with instructions about how to put together IEDs using house hold chemicals. But this seems a slightly separate debate.

I can see two solutions to this, 1 of which should have been done in 2016. (Token Center-Left Democrat here) 1) Make political affiliation a protected class like sex, religion, or race. Then the same protections would necessarily apply. So either they weaken those protections or they are...