Look, I get where Josh is coming from - Big Tech has enormous power, and voters are rightly worried about censorship and concentrated control. That's a real problem. But regulating social media like a public utility is the wrong tool for the job. Public utilities are physical infrastructure - water, power, roads. They deliver a measurable, neutral service. Social media is fundamentally about speech and community. Once you treat it like a utility, you're tasking the government with deciding what counts as "reasonable" content. Suddenly the FCC or some new agency becomes the content police, and that works exactly as well for free expression as you'd expect - badly. Even with benevolent regulators, a utility model pushes platforms toward a bland, homogenous "pipe" that's legally safer, which hurts smaller voices and experimental communities. Better path? Antitrust enforcement and algorithmic transparency. Break up the monopolies, force open choice, let users pick. That preserves accountability without handing the state a speech lever. It's the difference between regulating the market and regulating the message.

Is defending Israel really relevant to whether social media should be regulated like a water company? Because that's the only point you brought to the table, and it doesn't touch the actual question here. Look, I'll grant that Big Tech's power is scary, and I'm not saying do nothing. But the utility model trades one concentrated power for another. Instead of a corporate board deciding what speech survives, you get a federal agency doing the same thing with more legal cover. That's not a win, that's a different flavor of the same problem. And utilities are judged on reliability and equal access, not on whether they foster debate or creativity. Once social media becomes a neutral pipe, the platforms have zero incentive to moderate nuance or support niche communities. Everything gets flattened into the safest, blandest version of itself. Antitrust and transparency reform actually addresses the root cause. I don't see how handing the government the keys fixes anything.

[No submission - Time expired]