[2aProtectsTheRest]

Am not and never will be in favor of more regulations, restrictions, rules, or other government interference in private businesses.

If these platforms are working against conservatives, then conservatives should either move to platforms that are truly free and open or create conservative-only platforms. You don’t shut down businesses you don’t like; you create new businesses that do a better job serving people. That’s how you win in the free market, both in business and in ideas.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

That’s how you win in the free market, both in business and in ideas.

This is like saying that if GM, Ford and Chrysler in 1965 openly discriminated against conservatives (or blacks or Jews or any other category of people), then the solution would be to start a new car company. The easier solution is to apply regulations and legislation that make it too painful for the existing companies to discriminate. The social media giants form an effective monopoly - the decades it would take to form alternatives are decades in which conservatives can be silenced and marginalized. This is simply not acceptable.

[DiogenesLamp]

If these platforms are working against conservatives, then conservatives should either move to platforms that are truly free and open or create conservative-only platforms. You don’t shut down businesses you don’t like; you create new businesses that do a better job serving people. That’s how you win in the free market, both in business and in ideas.

No. These are communications companies. They either serve everyone who sits at their lunch counter, or they get forced out of business.

This is an existential issue. We will not be able to exist as a free society if we allow people to control and censor American speech.

They either serve everyone, or they be prohibited from serving anyone.

[ConservativeMind]

In general, I agree, but these companies chose to become public entities instead of remaining private.

I believe that will be one of the points Trump will leverage.

[Liz]

Am not and never will be in favor of more regulations, restrictions, rules, or other government interference in private businesses.

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These are not private businesses——these are publicly-held companies subject to SEC laws.
They raise money from the public and are traded on the stock exchange,

They “say” they are common carriers-—like planes, trains, cabs, buses........

Twitter is not a common carrier-——it is a publicly-held company subject to the laws of the SEC.

TWITTERS 2013 PROSPECTUS filed with the SEC

LINK-—https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000119312513390321/d564001ds1.htm