@LouisIngenthron Mostly preventing the existence of platforms as vast and influential as twitter, facebook, etc and encouraging conditions under which a multitude of platforms with different and diverse allegiances emerge. I have no enthusiasm at all for state regulation of communications platforms, but I think it both naive and undesirable to imagine large platforms capable of discretionary shaping of public discourse can exist and be regulated solely in the interests of their owners.

@LouisIngenthron ("regulated" in the sense of controlled in that last sentence, i'm objecting to the idea that oligopoly communications platforms should have unfettered discretionary control in the way that a small publisher surely should.)