What’s Up with the US Congressional Inquisition of Facebook and Instagram and Possibly Other Social Cyber-Electronic Communications-Content Publishing and Sharing Hosting Media?

What’s Up with the US Congressional Inquisition of Facebook and Instagram and Possibly Other Social Cyber-Electronic Communications-Content Publishing and Sharing Hosting Media?

If some folks object to the particular US Constitutionally protected right of freedom-of-the-press (with its own related first amendment right of freedom of speech and subsumed right of social freedom of association in thought and values) media, channel or publication and its contents, those folks can, as applicable, shun, boycott, unsubscribe to, turn off or switch the channel or station or abandon or disuse the media or publication (including online publication platform). Users, consumers or customers of mass media or communications-content publishing platforms are not compelled to use them, but use them of their own volition and initiative. If they find one or more objectionable to themselves or hurtful to their self-esteem, by these effects on themselves as individuals or classification of persons, they have no right thereby to censor or banish someone else's communications content media, be it of a person or persons of an organization or enterprise, that they visit, view or use.

Major online social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, have features associated with all posts on their platforms that allow users to block content and persons to which they object. Users can also use these features to accept or reject follower offers and can unfollow or unfriend others for sharing communications content or terminate others who have theretofore followed them and thereupon stop sharing communications content with them, making insincere and illegitimate complaints of unavoidable, unevadable psychologically harmful communications content on these social media.

(By the way, anyone can find communications content in or on any publication media, paper, broadcast, music recordings, etc., or cyber-electronic, that is offensive and harmful to some quantity of people, that nevertheless is not subject to censorship by government or any size of the population as a matter of US Constitutional Bill of Rights' irrevocable and unbreachable first amendment rights of freedom of the press and freedom of speech granted to each individual citizen or assemblage of citizens of the USA -- unalienable individual or collectively-individual truly democratic rights that cannot be overridden and curtailed by [the prevailing caprice of] government and citizenry majoritarianism. The US Congress, the sole law-making branch of the federal government, is barred specifically by the US Constitution, the supreme law of our nation, from restricting freedom of the press, being all communications-content host-publishers and otherwise publishers, including newspapers, magazines, books, comic books, films, audio-video, audio recordings and records, stage productions, broadcasts, social media information and expression content social-networking and sharing hosting platforms, etc. Though Congress may limit, as an anti-monopoly/antitrust act, the number of publication media companies a publication media company, in a generic regard, may own, it cannot restrict or deny the size of customer patronage of a publication media company or shutdown or break up a media company because of its grand-scale patronage by customers.)

As a hypothetical social media information-analyst columnist myself, you who are offended by my analyses and interpretations or opinions in my writings, cannot bully me into changing the communications content of my posted or published writings because they bother you and injure your self-esteem or have a likewise effect on your children, under our federal [US] Constitution and universal citizen Bill of Rights democratic-republic form of government. In such a circumstance, if you and your daughters are obese or overweight and feel humiliated, oppressed and depressed by the sight of photos of beautiful slender or otherwise physically fit women and teen girls posted by them on Instagram, you don't have to visit Instagram and view them. (Even if you visit Instagram, you can use the postings blocking or hide feature to not view the bothersome images and their like and love tallies and flattering comments to them that grieve your sense of comparative low self-image and self-esteem or you can just go elsewhere to a different social media platform or start up a social media platform of your own, at your own expense, and fashion or conform it to your communications-content tastes and preferred audience of obese women and teen girls to mutually emotionally compliment and assuage, or console, one another -- or form an exclusive group on Facebook or Instagram to do the same thing.). Furthermore, you have no right of freedom of speech in or on "my" publication product, forum or platform, other than that I grant to you under my terms of guest-user service as your host on my service. Your right of freedom of speech resides with you in your own abode or private social sphere or in the public commons.

There are control freaks, young and old, rich, poor and in-between, and on the political left and right, who want to massively control others and the lives and things of others, but, hypocritically, they tend to want this control to be one way, their way and not of themselves and what is theirs. The US Congressional inquisition of Facebook and Instagram stinks of fault-finding to justify imposing [and wielding] its and their control over others' resources and power, the power of enormous social and financial reach and influence, social and financial power and reach and influence some paper and broadcast news, information and entertainment media would also like returned to themselves. Their criticism of Facebook and other online social media communication-content publishing platforms' use of methods and means to attract, secure, increase and keep customers (user-customers) are commonplace in business for business survival, success and prosperity, and are a staple in big business, which got big by being successful by growing to a large size their customer base, their steady customer population, and habituating customers to their products and services, customer-cultivation methods and means that are called trade secrets or formulas, secret sauce, customer PR practices, etc. Simply, that's business and capitalism in a social democracy.

Where is and has ever been Congressional and mainstream paper and broadcast news media public outrage and inquisition of the socially and politically blatantly dishonest and/or inflammatory podcasters, and web platforms and broadcast shows like those of Fox Media, OANN-AT&T (right-wing One American News Network, primarily funded by AT&T), Newsmax, QAnoners, swindler broadcast media preachers, Alex Jones, Steve Bannon, Storm Front or its update, Coast to Coast, the stolen-presidential-election big-lie Trumpian Republicans, etc., and the traditional covert and overt white-supremacy and anti-Black/Afro people racist print media and advocacy organizations and groups pervading the USA? And where is the inquisition of the civilian guns and ammo industry, and their PR advocate the NRA, in view of the constant toll of gun violence throughout the USA, also regularly striking schools and youth, families and sometimes houses of worship?

Our constitutional democratic republic permits all views and values in freedom of the press and speech except for those that specifically express, entreat, advocate or incite sedition, insurrection, threats of physical injury, crime or social disturbances or public panic. Also, people, businesses, organizations and institutions can impose standards of decorum in dress, conduct and speech on other people who are on their property, premises or venues and, as applicable, can legally evict, banish, bar or fire, etc., non-discriminatorily (for retail businesses, consistent with the same standards for all), from their premises or venues anyone who violates their such standards of decorum.