(Image via Twitter) Disappointingly, the ACLU is using a moment of naked insurrection to yah-but on the issue of social media companies' unchecked power.
Yes, Facebook and Twitter should be public utilities with oversight at this point. It's like people owning the Internet. However, to make this stand now echoes Trump's and his enablers' own arguments, that social media is the problem, not fake screams of election fraud and calls to rise up against the government.
Meanwhile, the mad despot Twitter rightfully, if belatedly, banned, is already expressing regret for his conciliatory video.