“So what that means is the taxpayers will have to buy Twitter, Facebook and YouTube (at least).”
It means nothing of the sort. The government did not have to buy Verizon and ATT to make it illegal for them to prevent me from placing a call to the Trump for President campaign. They cannot censor my text messages for content or stop me from communicating with anyone who wants to talk to me also.
In return, Verizon isn’t held liable when a stalker terrorizes his ex on the phone.
It’s laughable to assert that we have to buy the company.
Besides you can buy Youtube and Facebook for 200 billion. Throw in another 4 billion for twitter. Hell we just spent 2 trillion on a tuesday last month. Throw in all of Google and it’s another trillion.
But we don’t have to. We just clip their wings. And it’ll be easy to do with all the business they do with Red China :)
They entered into the telecom business knowing they were common carriers and were regulated. They built their business models around that.
The socials didn't and removing their ability to moderate content would destroy their business model - which is providing a good platform for advertising.
That's a pretty classic taking.
Lots of big cities are having trouble. They are going downhill fast.