The solution to this conundrum appears to be: Break-up those “social media monopolies” like Facebook and Google, into smaller functionally independent subsidiaries offering a more open public platform for a diversity of perspectives and views, by applying execution of Sherman Antitrust Acts legal action, as in the cases of Standard Oil, Bell Telephone, etc… Otherwise, the only alternative left would be government regulation of private social media companies or corporations, an option that would endanger the domestic and international freedom of the press in general. How do we prevent private social media corporations from practicing censorship of views they don’t like? It is not accidental that both Facebook and Google are directly connected to DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL SURVEILLANCE PROTOCOLS orchestrated by the CIA/NSA/Department of Homeland Security/Directorate of National Intelligence, etc…, and, who knows who else, in the guise and pretense of “the fight against terrorism.” Since the so-called “P.A.T.R.I.O.T ACT that unconstitutionally granted extended surveillance powers to the FBI/NSA and other so-called “intelligence agencies” or “law enforcement agencies,” jurisdictions are blurred and activities are redundant in their operational scope, so that there is so much centralization among these interlocking jurisdictions, that the “surveillance State apparatus” is morphing more and more into a slippery slope towards “democratic fascism” — “Free in word but slave in practice.” How? These agencies are seldom, if not, never, monitored by any independent congressional or citizen-based or community-based “organs of public oversight.” And once those inordinate powers are granted, they’re seldom rescinded, but rather, continue to increase and intensify, in both mission statement and functional operations, e.g., FBI now has “international reach” whereas before, it was merely a domestic internal investigatory agency; likewise, the Coast Guard that traditionally protected our shores within the 12-mile international oceanic limits, can be sent to Iraq or Afghanistan, or to any other “trouble spot” on the globe, to fight a war of aggression, such as, unlike the Korean War, during a “UN-unapproved” military invasion of a certain country,e.g., Venezuela. In short, the incestuous marriage between the military, Pentagon, and intelligence agencies on the one hand, and the unconstitutional concubinage between that federal government complex and the private social media corporations have compounded the problem of maintaining and keeping the free press, truly free! Nowadays, corporate media monopolies like NBC, CNN, or FOX get their cues from the Pentagon, due to their corrupt entanglement with the Military-Industrial-Complex, Stock Market gambling, and Wall Street operators, for whom “perpetual war,” is a bloody business.” For example, Haliburton Corporation is profitably engaged in “servicing our troops!” For almost 20 years! Not forgetting that Julian Assange, a true martyr of the real free press, is in jail in Britain, waiting for possible extradition to the United States, for merely publishing video-taped war crimes perpetrated by the so-called “Coalition Forces” in Iraq and Afghanistan. But, of course, this is not new: Which newspaper had called the Spanish-American War of 1898, “A SPLENDID LITTLE WAR!” The corporate media in the United States is totally silent regarding the torturous plight and psychological abuse being inflicted upon Mr. Assage! So, How “free” is the “free press?” God help us all! *