Who Owns the Internet platforms?

Not Alex Jones! How about the owners? He has been thrown off a few platforms allegedly for his abusive content but the owners do not have to supply a reason -he's been critiquing them for ages and perhaps they had enough of the paranoia ingrate and din't see why they should showcase the loon and his rabid forays into the parallel universe he inhabits. Let him go somewhere else to pedal his paranoiac delusions. Seems fair to me.

One or two less platforms for the deranged to promote his bile and bilge seems like progress to me. If you use a platform the owner's get to make the rules be they arbitrary of fair. Without them you would not be able to self promote so a little gratitude might be in order rather than abuse you might think. Not that a vulgarian like Jones would know anything about such civility for sure.

Here I disagree with the sort of libertarian Brendan O Neil who I largely have a lot of time for and regard as one of the best defenders of liberty in the Lockean tradition I have seen on youtube but he argued recently and most erroneously I feel that such platforms are public property and he cited approvingly a US court case back in the 1950's involving a woman who asserted her right to hand out the Jehova's Witness magazine on a privately owned street which she won.

O Brien is a self identitying Marxist so I suppose he would have asuch a relaxed cavalier attitude towards private property which is what the both abovementioned are about and he will be interviewed by Yaron Brook in September so no doubt YB may question him closely on such matters and the principles of liberty they throw up. Whatever the case it should be interesting listening.