it's always baffling to me how stupid right-libertarians are about an issue that they ought to be kind of experts about.

the status quo is that posting to facebook is uploading your writing to be displayed on private property (the facebook servers), so it is up to facebook to make an arbitrary decision as to whether your posts should be deleted or not. there is no appeal mechanism, here, merely the dictatorship of private capital - if facebook or google or twitter or whomever else doesn't like your posts, you're gone. and, people have been legitimately banned, without any kind of due process.

what zuckerberg is saying here is "wait a minute. i'm just a boy wonder that got lucky. i'm technically a college dropout. what the fuck am i doing adjudicating speech issues? this is a rights issue. government is on my ass about it, but shouldn't a court deal with this?".

reason would apparently prefer the dictatorship of private capital, however unqualified, and however incompetent.

if a government agency were to step in here, it would be subject to appeal, and i can assure you that no judiciary anywhere in the english-speaking world is going to uphold any kind of meaningful prohibition of political expression online.

alex jones might even be able to get his profile back. and that's what we all want, right?

https://reason.com/blog/2019/04/05/mark-zuckerberg-calls-for-government-reg