No, "free" isn't just a rhetorical device in the real world.
It means that neither me, nor you, nor Alex Jones pays anything to place our content on Facebook.
It means that neither me, nor you, nor Alex Jones pays anything to place our content on Facebook.
Facebook makes money from it's "users." Your efforts to keep putting "free" into the conversation are attempts to deceive us about what is going on here. (As are your efforts to constantly invoke "Free Republic" into the conversation.)
The freight is paid on "InfoWars" content, and "InfoWars" was actually making money for Facebook and YouTube. This isn't about money or profit, because if it were, they would continue hosting that material, because it makes them money.
This is about controlling political speech by creating a public commons which is owned by a private corporation, and you are in favor of letting a lesser principle (Property rights of communications companies) vanquish a far more important principle. (That speech be not censored in America.)
Requiring all communication companies above a certain size to carry all traffic is not a threat to our system of governance. Allowing companies to control speech in the USA is a grave threat to our system of governance.
You are being penny wise and dollar foolish.