In reply to elsewhere:
> In a democracy a commercial business has the right to decide what to publish. Hence you don't see my drivel on the front page of the Guardian...
The problem here is different. The tech companies explicitly DENY that they are publisher, according to them that would be the users, while they style themselves as something akin to telephone networks.
This is obviously bullshit, but so far they got away with it.
The reason that they now respond is that they are afraid that the egregious nature of Trump's incitement might wake up politicians to that problem. Ironically, Trump wants exactly that, but for the usual self serving but self defeating reasons.
Even more ironically, banning Trump PROVES that they already have editorial powers over content, there is no difference in deciding what cannot be published as deciding what can, and e.g. Zuckerberg should be held responsible and go to jail for every piece of hate speech, mobbing, or revenge porn he facilitates through his service.
CB