while the argument here is that they are common carriers, from outside it looks more like US big tech is like other media producers. Except, instead of producing content to push their worldviews, they are shaping the content produced en masse by the crowd in order to push their message. The semantics are the same, even if the mechanism is diffeerent. The US seems to be in a bad spot under the hegemony of big tech, because they take advantage of this period of legal vaccum. The rest of the world is a bit more lucky because big tech doesn't have immediate interests there currently. But in any case it feels wrong that FB & google are not subject to the same legal duties as TV