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.
"FR is open to conservatives and conservative activists. And even narrower than that, FR is open to pro-God (our one true Judeo-Christian God), pro-life, pro-family, pro-America, pro-constitution, pro-gun, pro-borders, constitutionally limited-government conservative patriots. Marxists, fascists, antifascists (antifa who, in fact, are actually fascists), communists, totalitarians, anarchists, socialists, national socialists, democrat socialists, liberals, progressives, mass murderers, baby murderers, abortionists, homosexualists, globalists, glowbull warming hoaxers, open-borders pushers, amnesty pimps, God-haters, Jew-haters, anti-Semites, big government pushers, gun grabbers, border jumpers, criminals, racists, revolutionists, callers for violence, democrats, rinos, establishment GOPers (but I repeat myself) are not welcome on FR."Jim Robinson, 8/9/2018
Tell it to Jim.