"[it] doesn't sound like something that a publicly traded company should engage in."
This is probably the easiest answer, perhaps even easier than anti-trust action or trying to define hate speech. Pick the worst offenders in this affair. Force them to clean up their act, or be delisted from any US-based stock exchange.
These aren't private companies. They are publicly-traded US companies, which have an entirely different set of rules and regulations.
This is quite dishonest. Twitter, FB, AWS, Google condone a constant stream of harmful material, as long as it is either coming from other tech oligarchs or non-conservative outlets.
How many BLM / Antifa riots have been organized in Google drive or Gmail?
How many inner city gang feuds have spilled over into bloodshed, as a result of Instagram, Twitter or Facebook?
How much revenge porn is served on Amazon's CDNs?
Since George Floyd died, homicide rates have exploded in the United States -- dwarfing anything the far-right has done. To pretend this is about stopping violence is just a lie.
This is probably the easiest answer, perhaps even easier than anti-trust action or trying to define hate speech. Pick the worst offenders in this affair. Force them to clean up their act, or be delisted from any US-based stock exchange.
These aren't private companies. They are publicly-traded US companies, which have an entirely different set of rules and regulations.