From its public reports, each month, Facebook claims it is taking down more alleged hate speech messages than all governments added up together all around the world throughout history. They’re taking down hundreds and hundreds of thousands of posts, a huge percentage of which are subject to appeal.

So on one hand, they have this enormous power, but on the other hand, they’re not subject to any of the constitutional constraints that restrain government power. Not only are they not subject to the First Amendment itself, but they’re not subject to any kind of due process. They don’t have to give us notice of what their roles are. They don’t have to give us an opportunity to argue against being removed from the platform or having a particular message removed.

They’re not accountable, ultimately, to We the People the way the government is. So it’s a terrible combination of power without democratic restraints.

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And no "reforms" will fix that problem; it would cut too far into profits, snd frankly, I think Mark Zuckerberg enjoys having that power to lord it over all the rest of us.

Ceterem censeo: Facebook delendum est. (And further, I opine: Facebook must be destroyed.)

Every two-bit message board claims the right to remove messages and ban people who "violate community standards" - an elastic term which basically means "Don't say anything that might upset the Owners".

At least one of them takes it a lot farther than that. If you say anything that the moderators don't like, they will FRAME you and arbitrarily ban you on the specious excuse of "having multiple accounts" - when you DON'T. And from this decision there is no appeal. (Ironically, that isn't even a political board - it's a place to discuss f'n comic books. But they still will not allow any dissent.)