He is absolutely right.
The First Amendment will be DEAD unless one of the following two things happen, and quickly.
1) Congress steps in and enforces TRUE “net neutrality” by regulating these companies and preventing them from censoring internet speech (not likely as too many in the GOP are invested in The Swamp winning its battle with Trump)
2) Some Conservative alternatives to these portals and sites (which are currently nowhere on the horizon) get launched QUICKLY and grow very RAPIDLY.
Why the latter is not already underway confounds me. I’ve been able to see for a decade that this was where the Silicon Valley Left was headed. They’ve honed their tactics supporting the Great Firewall in China.
"Yes, we were trying to get rid of 'fake news'by shaping our results, and we didn't do that right, and in our zeal to do right, treated our conservative customers unfairly and poorly. We are changing that, and we apologize."
But...they are still shaping their search results and links. They are trying to make it less obvious, but to anyone who pays attention (especially on Google searches) the fact that they massage and manipulate their query results to present to end users means...
They are still massaging and manipulating their results. And leopards don't change their spots. They are trying to find the 'line' that separates noticeable censorship/manipulation from "I didn't find what I was looking for" and get right up to that as close as possible without us knowing it.
In my opinion, a system that you type a query into that has non-voluntary (and unknown) filters applied to it is exactly the same as a gallon of the purest, ultrafiltered, distilled and deionized H2O with a single drop of sewage water in it is not a gallon of the purest, ultrafiltered, distilled and deionized H2O...it is A gallon of Sewage.
The companies have already shown their true intentions-—they need to be broken up into a thousand pieces.