The problem is that Facebook reaches 2 billion people and the next closest is about 40 or 50 million. For all intents and purposes, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Apple and possibly one or two others of this group which is banned Jones amount to an effective monopoly.
In fact, even if conservatives and libertarians were to construct alternatives to all those things, they might have a workable or quasi workable solution but not a good solution or a happy solution. That would still leave tens of millions of low information types trapped on an information plantation with no possibility of anybody else ever reaching any of them.
The problem is that Facebook reaches 2 billion people and the next closest is about 40 or 50 million. For all intents and purposes, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Apple and possibly one or two others of this group which is banned Jones amount to an effective monopoly.
In fact, even if conservatives and libertarians were to construct alternatives to all those things, they might have a workable or quasi workable solution but not a good solution or a happy solution. That would still leave tens of millions of low information types trapped on an information plantation with no possibility of anybody else ever reaching any of them.