Social-Media Oligopolists Are the New Railroad Barons. It's Time for Washington to Treat Them Accordingly
In 1964, an Ohio Ku Klux Klan leader named Clarence Brandenburg told a Cincinnati-based reporter that his hate group would soon be holding a rally in a rural area of Hamilton County. In the filmed portions of that rally, which later became the focus of legal prosecution, robed men, some with guns, could be seen burning a cross and making speeches, infamously demanding "revengeance" against Blacks (they used another…