Three months ago President Trump with much fan fair set up a private blog page. He allowed individuals to take his blog entries and post them on other platforms. he made it simple to post if they a member of the other platform. All three platforms responded by blocking those who were members of there social networks from being able to post links to Trumps Blog. Today trump announced a class action law suit. My thought is that trumps creation of this blog was actualy a trap meant to show that there is coordination between theses three tech entities and there CEOs. I think the way president Trump is going to bring theses companies down is to show that the censorship going on is coordinated and that it also tied to political actors within the us government.
This was edited to make it easier to read. dyslexic so this is the cleanest I can make it.
Sounds like you didn't actually listen to the press conference, they laid out your counterargument as well but the issue is that they're not acting as private companies but acting as unofficial government agencies trying to control info and free speech. The private company excuse goes out the window when government has a hotline to you to demand someone be banned.
OK maybe I am just over-sensitive because I don't like them. Before those companies came along the internet standard for discussion on any topic was NNTP Usenet news. This was functionally fairly simple but worked fantastically. It was impossible to ban anyone or tell them what to say or not say. Of course this attracted spammers and bad actors but they effectively banned themselves very quickly because it was so easy for people block them en masse.
Then along came the monolithic American tech companies who cleverly attracted users to their sites by offering more than just discussion. Facebook was great in 2008 when I first used it as a genuine social nexus. Eventually Usenet degenerated into the mere pirate fileswapping system that it is now.
I would like to see those pre-facebook days return. I don't think setting up clones/alternatives like Parler or whatever are the answer, we need something which guarantees your right to free speech while also guaranteeing your right to not have to listen to someone else's speech if you don't like it.