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Absolutely not. Targeting individual companies and having the government telling them how they may govern themselves with regards to their terms of service and content on their sites is not appropriate. The notion of free speech on the internet isn't whether or not facebook or youtube or google allows for something but whether or not a competitor can legitimately utilize the infrastructure to put forth a competitor. A combination of killing net neutrality while putting government crackdown on the remaining large popular sites would be a tag team approach to absolutely ****ing over the open internet.
Well then maybe it's time for antitrust laws to catch up with the technology. It's hard to claim that if an idea was banned from Google, Facebook and Twitter that it wouldn't have a chilling effect on free speech.