I saw Gov Huckabee on Outnumbered today and he said that social media should be like the phone company. Phone co puts up the lines and people choose what to say through the lines. Twitter and Facebook make the platform. That’s it. They should NOT be allowed to control the content.
What is needed is a protocol in which these companies run ON, and not run themselves. Like USENET or FTP and WWW.
All Twitter does is offer better “features” when you access it via their service, and that’s it.
All messages are visible to anyone as default.