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Telcos are private. They are not allowed to disconnect calls when people are talking about things they don't like. They are not allowed to drop accounts for organizations saying things they don't like.

Electric companies are mostly private. They are not allowed to cut off electricity to people/orgs that say things they don't like.

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People claim that internet platforms present a novel problem but telcos are a very good model for regulation.

Governments should ban large platforms (>10M users) from editorial discretion.

Telephone communications are one to one, not one to many, which makes their regulations largely irrelevant as a model for regulating one to many systems.

Telcos and utilities are regulated as common carriers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier

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