If the platforms were made into "utilities" which required everyone to be treated equal

Then they will just push increasingly restrictive rules onto the userbase

"No racism, no bigotry, no X, no Y"

Yeah, it was

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.#Settlement

The "left" are fine with rules like that, in fact they're pushing for more of them

Whereas the "right" are opposed to things like that and generally want more freedom of speech

So realistically making them a "utility" won't do much..

https://intpolicydigest.org/2017/02/21/the-internet-and-modern-trust-busting/

I assume the usage of trustbusting among media companies could be adapted towards the use of trustbusting of social-media sites (at the very least, I assume that Facebook would have to severely limit the sites it considers "fake news")

I have a political idea I'd like to share with you nuggats

Would anyone like to hear it

@Wild Dog cool

yeah, I would

So

Most people in americada, I hear

Are bored shitless with elections

is it anything like The Purge?

and have next to no faith in our politicians or the system

It's like the purge if the purge was a picnic

Idea is the right to vote for ways to decide our leaders.

What if you could vote for say, a competition

would the political leaders be having an orgy?

And whatever contests you think would whittle down to the best person for the job

Yeah, but wouldn't such competitions also have corruption involved (not the the level of say....a regular election, I suppose....but it would still be present)?

@SPOOKY Phil, Ruler of Heck The only feasible thing, would be to nationalise them

Possibly, but it being a competition might get people more interested

@Weez yeah, seems like a good idea

Which means the referees might have to look behind their back for bad calls

Just like Soccer

Have the govt distribute assets towards other lesser companies (such as Gab), mayhaps?

Are we trying to turn politics even more into reality TV than it already is?

Probably not, allow them to continue to operate

You can be bored all you want. As soon as you stop putting thought into your electoral decisions and start donkey(non-vote not a ref of the us democrats) voting your nation will be in the pits sooner rather than later.

Not ALL of their assets @Weez

just enough so it's a level playing field

But a government sets the TOS for the sites.

Or, some body does.

More so to get the community involved and away from the TV instead of just politicians

the actual sites themselves, are presumably the ones who set their own TOS

Then just allow the tech giants to keep working as they do