So how long before we start to see Twitter and Facebook removing campaign ads from conservatives? I think 2020 at the absolute latest. We may start seeing it in the next couple of months. Can you imagine the candidate for one of the political parties being disallowed from advertising on social media? Sadly, I can.
That could be. The Left already has control of --
-- The Media
-- Television Networks, including cable
-- Hollywood
-- Silicon Valley
-- the Music Industry (most of it)
-- Newspapers
-- K through 12 Education
-- Universities
They do not leave much for conservatives, do they? Just tiny corners here and there -- (sometimes) Fox News on cable, AM talk radio and little slivers of the internet.
So what are they trying to do now? They are out to squash those little slivers of the internet where conservatives can be seen and heard (FB, Twitter, YouTube). It is not a bad strategy from their perspective. And they have tried to eliminate Fox News and AM radio multiple times already (the Fairness Doctrine didnt work in the past and cant work, but if they bring it back, I would personally love to hit my local fishwrap (@Chron) over the head with it -- no one deserves it more).
In my search to figure out what is to be done about internet censorship, my first idea was to have the FCC declare these big internet companies as "common carriers." My next idea is to use the 1st Amendment on them. Yes, they are private businesses, but they are also essentially now the "town square." And there is at least some legal precedent to apply the 1st in this situation. And the ads idea you describe above might make for a good court case on this.