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> The company’s platforms have been used to fuel the spread of terrorism and violent extremism, mass violence and online harassment.

Why don't people criticize ISPs for spreading these through their infrastructure? Or criticize Apple and Google for allowing people to use their products to achieve similar goals?

I really want to see congress grill the CEOs of Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon. "What do you mean HTTPS? So you don't know? Unbelievable..."

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Infrastructure does not have an algorithm or "recommendations" that decide what you see.

It's the same reason people don't criticize the power company for allowing people to use their products.

If an person with a weapon drives down a road to inflict evil, should the company who made the road be responsible? The company that made the car? Or the company that made the weapon?

ISPs are too generalised to be responsible for what goes over their wires. If they were, then they would face all sorts of legal problems, everything from spam emails to Phishing to ransomware attacks. Not to mention CC and identity theft.

Maybe yes.

Gun manufacturers are being sued, some successfully, https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/15/us/sandy-hook-shooting-settle... for marketing's role in certain wrongful deaths.

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