This is a silly thread. Corporations just want to elect someone who will help them be more profitable. Google wants Trump is interferring with their interests in China, and big coal wants to keep Trump for obvious reasons. They all donate, lobby, and just try to influence elections and laws in their favor. This is how US has always worked, why getting the pitch forks out now?
Google, Twitter, and Facebook are all actively censoring conservative expression on their platforms. Actively. On the other hand, they are not similarly censoring liberal expression on their platforms.
The US has never worked that way.
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Right, and Fox is the epitome of fairness and equal exposure. Only those damn libtards are to guilty of bias.
Non-sequitur much?
Fox is a publisher who is responsible for the content they produce. They don’t pretend to be a neutral platform nor a public utility and do not hide their biases. Now, back up a post and decide if your comparison between them and Facebook, Twitter and YouTube remains valid.
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Again (are you paying attention?), it’s beyond bias. Opinions are being quashed, but only if they’re conservative opinions. Not just opinion, either. Conservative expression is being selectively prohibited.
That has never happened in the US.
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Back in the last century, Motley Fool would delete posts criticizing Microsoft. That was an early warning of what would come.
The people who run Web 2.0 always had these tendencies to some extent. As their power grows, their unworthiness of power also grows. It goes to their heads.
The trouble with a decentralized Internet is the business model. You have to have a gate before you can collect a toll.
Say it a third time, and poof! It will become true! 
Back in the day, newspapers and radio stations were blissfully bias-free! 
In all seriousness, something has changed, namely the degree of the concentration of power. Today’s lords of communication have more resources at their disposal and can therefore accomplish more of whatever they want to accomplish and accomplish it faster.
The good news is that you can harness the mighty Power of the Free Market™to defeat the FAANG-types by being better at what they do – and of course by not being biased. Let us know when you make it. 
From a purely technical point of view, it’s a solved problem. The catch is monetizing it.
So watcha waitin’ for? 
Money.
Have you tried asking the “If you could be a tree…?” guy? 
Money doesn’t grow on trees.
Of course it does, if you know how to monetize it. 
The Lorax would like a word with you.
Sorry, out to lunch. Leave a message. 
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The body language of that cringing weasel is precious.
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I’m hoping one day Crenshaw will run and win for President. I want a US President that looks like a Punisher + MGS’ Snake crossover.
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Twitter on Thursday said it would begin labeling tweets from national political figures, including President Trump, that the company could otherwise have taken down for breaking its rules,
The new policy applies to political candidates and government officials who have more than 100,000 followers, Twitter said, and will be used in rare occasions. Before users can view tweets that the company has flagged as a violation of its guidelines, they will need to click on a screen that says: “The Twitter Rules about abusive behavior apply to this Tweet. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain available.”
might have to add Twitter in thread title
This might not work out the way they intend.