“Correcting the censorship and bad behavior of the social media giants doesn’t require government handlers to running their businesses.”
Sorry, but the only censorship I really care much about is government censorship. So-called censorship by private businesses is a pretty standard part of private property rights, not some actionable abuse against the citizenry.
“Also the government, via antitrust laws, can have Twitter broken up into four or more companies...”
Yeah, I doubt that’s going to happen since nothing they have done really seems to violate antitrust laws. Maybe you’d have a case with google/youtube installing their own apps on Android phones as that is similar to what Microsoft got dinged for but even then, the courts didn’t break up Micosoft for that, and they probably wouldn’t break up google either.
“...or does that not compute?”
No, I just don’t think there is any real comparison between a company like Twitter and Ma Bell. Ma Bell would be more akin to an ISP, except there is plenty of competition among ISPs already. Twitter is just one more private business among thousands offering services over the internet that those ISPs (the carriers) give you access to. They don’t control your access to the network, they only control your access to their own proprietary service. If you get booted off Twitter, there are still thousands and thousands of other ways for you to communicate on the internet.
Sorry, but your reasoning sounds like a religion and you refuse to acknowledge that the government might have a compelling interest in protecting the right of individual citizens to exercise free speech on the Internet’s public square. Twitter might be a private company but it is operating on our internet that is installed on rights-of-way granted by the public and over spectrums regulated by the government.