But then he goes off the rails.
Was there ever any doubt? The American Conservative isn’t the worst media outlet of the lot, but it wouldn’t be called that if it didn’t traffic in intellectual dishonesty.
Also, before the brand-new “First Amendment absolutists” show up here to display their ignorance and black-and-white thinking, let me direct them here first:
As to the argument, we’ve been through this before. Facebook either: changes its business model to a subscription one that makes them a few billion less every year (but eliminates a lot of the existing problems and associated costs); allows itself to be turned into a common carrier (with all the regulation that implies); or gets broken up by a government that internalises a new understanding of what constitutes a monopoly. American conservatives of all stripes, though, are generally unwilling to accept any of those as solutions.
