In our internet age, the freedom of speech that truly matters is ALL digital.

The US has no Public ISP, nor Public Speech Platform equivalent of Twitter, Google, Facebook, etc.

Think about that the next time someone tells you “Dude, it’s a private company. You don’t get it.”

Imagine a town where every square centimeter was turned private. No public roads. No parks. No public beaches, lakes or streams. No space at all that is not privately held.

And in this town you have had extensive protections and rights. But those rights are all to public space.

Either our rights must be extended to private companies by legal abstraction or we must take functions of the internet that are privately provided and give our citizenry public options.

I do not agree that tech giants can do “whatever they want”: Speech companies are different.

NOTE: I am talking above about the lack of federal nationwide ISPs in the US. Not municipal broadband.