Hey, it’s their platform... don’t like it, go somewhere else.
And every American has a choice in cellphone service providers - so they can block journalist they don’t favor too. What could possibly go wrong?
Not really, no.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/new-fcc-data-indicates...
> The major takeaway of this report, which provides policymakers in D.C. and the states a wide-ranging view of available data to see trends in the Internet, is that competition for broadband only looks good at slow speeds while a vast majority of Americans (EFF estimates at least 68 million) are facing monopoly or no access to high-speed broadband.
> Instead, in a handful of markets we have reviewed, we find that the average price consumers pay ranges from 200% to 400% above competitive rates and that cable prices are established surgical precision in order to extract monopoly rents. For example, I myself would have to pay $159.95 for a gigabit service whereas my coworkers would pay $40 for a superior product.
My goodness you folks will bend over backwards to defend the world's largest corporations censoring journalists. It shows just how illiberal the Democratic Party has become. It's very lonely right now for those of us that believe in freedom of speech as an ideal worth standing up for.
That's not actually what the highlighted quotes say.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/50-mi...
Title: "50 million US homes have only one 25Mbps Internet provider or none at all"
Article:
> The household analysis found a slightly better, but still troubling, situation, with nearly half of the 118 million US households lacking any wired Internet choice at the FCC's broadband standard of 25Mbps.
Nah.
> I’d like to hear why you think it is terrible when Comcast bans a website but fine when Google/Facebook/Twitter do it.
In many areas of the country, there is only one ISP available. In my area, there's two, but one only offers very slow DSL; there is a de facto monopoly on meaningful internet service.
This is not the case for social media.
> Both groups have monopolistic power.
That you had to say "Google/Facebook/Twitter" and not just one of them clearly indicates that they do not.