I wrote this article about a year ago, and it looks like the President is doing the first part of the solution.

https://conservativehardliner.com/dont-break-social-media-companies-crack-them-open-instead

QuoteOf the social media platforms, Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter are the major problems.  They continue to blatantly purge conservative users for pro-American thought and content, and as 2020 approaches there's no signs of it slowing down.

Twitter, however, is not like the others.  It's truly a private company (listed publicly on the NYSE) in the sense that it's not a government company.   Twitter grew to the monster it is because it's an amazing product that caught fire at the right time.  They were created and launched by coders and venture capitalists; not government.

Like the baker who refuses to bake a cake with a dildo on top for a gay wedding, Twitter can refuse service to whomever it wishes, and I fully support that.  Sure, as they grew larger, they've been taken over by lunatics like Prince Al-Waleed, but they're not controlled by government.

As a pro-Constitution free market capitalist business owner, I'm automatically on the side of the business, which is on the side of freedom and the First Amendment.  The snarky "muh private company" comment by many "conservatives" is unfortunate as it shows a lack of respect for the freedom of business and private property rights.  I'd expect this from Bernie supporters.

Still, Twitter can be rightfully knocked down to size (even as they decline).  Twitter, and the others, enjoy protection under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act:

QuoteRemoving Section 230 protection from Twitter and others would immediately drop these monsters to their knees, as the 230 protection wasn't intended to help facilitate censorship of political ideas.  Tagging them as publishers, however, is not the game-changing solution for the others.

The rest of the article highlights why you can't "break up" a social media company... you force them to open up their tech, which was created by government. (Not Twitter... I'm not sure they got any tech from government in regards to their core functionality, but stripping them of sec 230 is a major kick in the nuts).

Quote taxed:  stripping them of sec 230 is a major kick in the nuts.

Yep, but in my opinion that's not good enough. We don't want them to reproduce so they need a full castration

Edit to say:  I didn't read the article until I made this post but I just came back to say that's one of the best articles that I've read in quite some time, and it probably more pertinent today than when you wrote it. It was all meat and that last line was the gravy

I would think everybody knows Trump signed the EO late Thursday regarding Big Tech and they're censoring conservative opinions. It would seem the courts are already siding with big Tech

Appeals court rules in favor of Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter in anti-conservative bias suit


https://techcrunch-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/techcrunch.com/2020/05/27/appeals-court-rules-in-favor-of-google-apple-facebook-and-twitter-in-anti-conservative-bias-suit/amp/?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&aoh=15907674350437&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2020%2F05%2F27%2Fappeals-court-rules-in-favor-of-google-apple-facebook-and-twitter-in-anti-conservative-bias-suit%2F