[semimojo]

It never occurred to the founders that any organization besides a government would ever be capable of such a thing, but had they considered it, they would not have allowed private companies to control public speech.

OK, looking past the claim that Diogenes Lamp knows what the founders considered, there were private newspapers and phamplets in that day which they chose not to regulate.

Are you advocating that we should only allow public (government) institutions to control public speech?

[DiogenesLamp]

OK, looking past the claim that Diogenes Lamp knows what the founders considered, there were private newspapers and phamplets in that day which they chose not to regulate.

And not a one of them could have controlled the market.

Are you advocating that we should only allow public (government) institutions to control public speech?

I am advocating that we should use the power of government to inhibit companies from censoring speech as if they were a government that had such a power.

We cannot allow political speech to be censored in a market dominated by a single large communication companies, or a collection of them which collude to do such a thing.

If they solicit public content, they should be held to the same standards of the government. They should serve everyone who sits at their lunch counter.