Good. They're free to do that as a private company. If Facebook is so important that they shouldn't be allowed to moderate their own platform then designate them a utility.
Just because in a technical sense they are free to do it doesn’t mean they should do it. This is a very pessimistic view of the world.
If everything operated in the very edges of law “because they can” we would have never made any progress. There are countless negative things you could do with your time on this planet but that isn’t a justification.
We can always strive to be better and push others to do so. Laws and hard rules should be the absolute last resort fallback option, not the operating procedure.
> We can always strive to be better and push others to do so
I agree, but Facebook, and the rest of these companies, are not people. They are legal entities. Technically, US congress can kill them all overnight, without even violating a single UN policy.
If they're that capable of moderating their platform then maybe they no longer require Section 230 protection. They should now be held liable for failures of that moderation, as many other types of businesses would be.
