They aren't unregulated. They're incredibly regulated. That isn't what you wrote.
That was related to free speech matters. And...
You said it should be illegal for a private company to remove a business that was using its infrastructure for free from its platform.
That is precisely what I said and that is exactly what should happen. Just like how the municipal authority, the transportation ministry, police, judiciary or the army cannot remove any law-abiding citizen or business from their services.
No one forced them to use Facebook and they could develop their own platform and infrastructure. They chose not to.
The citizens dont develop infrastructure, lighting, judicial services, police services and defense services either. They utilize these services that are provided by the society as a right. That is not a matter of choice just like the position of current internet user or business regarding tech monopolies is not a choice because Facebook controls a massive amount of the Internet traffic and content, including a large swath of Internet business because of its gigantic size. A few tech corporations like Facebook literally became supra-national utilities because they were let to be whereas it shouldnt have been allowed.
We dont privatize the military, the judiciary, the police, the transportation network and let private organizations do whatever they want with these aspects of life in the society. There is no reason why we should private organizations do whatever they want with people's businesses and freedom of speech.
It doesnt matter whether someone acquires a monopoly status by might, by right or through skulduggery. If you are a gigantic monopoly that controls the lives and livelihoods of countless people, you forfeit the liberty to act like a small business that can do whatever it wants.
You cant play with the lives of people and their livelihoods. Its amazing how something like this even needs to be said.
What is illegal is the government forcing a private company to do something which is entirely within their right.
There is no such magical right that any private business has. All rights derive from the people through the laws made by the representatives that they elected. And, outside the US, every single country has a lot of laws that make businesses do what they are mandated to do by the democratic authority.
Do you even understand the difference in scale here? The company was making $1 m/month.... Facebook makes that in 3-5 minutes.
Facebook controlling huge swaths of the economy as a private feudal lord and making gigantic amounts of money does not give it the right to play with the lives of people who make $5/month, leaving aside $1m/month. The proposition is illogical.
