All these large technology platforms are as ubiquitous as utilities, as powerful as governments, and as unregulated as can be. Their network effects and access to capital gives them unusually strong protection from competition, and also the ability to just copy smaller competitors with impunity. After all, what legal action could a cash-tight startup take up against a behemoth with a war chest in the tens of billions of Dollars? Given their size, scope, and the lack of healthy competition, they need to be reigned in. We need to treat social media platforms like we treat telecom services - as common carriers. And we need to treat other large tech platforms as public utilities as well.

Clarence Thomas on treating social media as common carriers: https://reclaimthenet.org/justice-clarance-thomas-big-tech-p...

Eugene Volokh on treating social media as common carriers: https://reason.com/volokh/2021/07/16/conclusion-social-media...