Zuckerberg Before Congress is Unconstitutional

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

Yes, Mark Zuckerberg, the owner and CEO of FACEBOOK is a raging leftist, and he runs his FACEBOOK business in a manner that is politically discriminatory.  He targets conservatives, censors conservatives, and bans conservative material.  He uses technology to target advertising, shares information (of which his customers agreed to via the agreement in place by joining FACEBOOK) and treats his customers in a manner that is not good.

Fine.  He's a jerk.  But, Zuckerberg is a private business owner.  If you don't like what he's doing, take your business elsewhere.

There is no authority granted to the federal government by the Constitution giving Congress or any other part of government the authority to demand Zuckerberg to stand before Congress, and answer for his private business practices.

As a customer, Ted Cruz's questioning of Zuckerberg was fantastic and correct, but how Zuckerberg runs his business is none of the U.S. Senate's business, so as a Senator, Ted Cruz (as the "constitution guy" in the Senate) should have known better than to be read Zuckerberg the riot act.

We have a free market system.  If we don't like government dictating to a baker about their cake baking, or to preachers regarding who they will marry, why are we cheering for government to dictate to FACEBOOK on how they run their business?

Don't like them?  Take your business elsewhere.  Create a competing platform.

If Zuckerberg understood freedom and the Constitution, he would have walked into Congress and said, "My name is Mark Zuckerberg, and I am a liberal left Democrat, and as a private business owner it is none of your business, nor authority, on how I run my private corporation."

I don't like the guy, and I think it is messed up that FACEBOOK plays these games of censoring people for political reasons.   I am angry they did what they did to Diamond and Silk.  It was messed up and I will shout from the highest rooftops that it was wrong.  But, in the end, as a private business owner, there is nothing legally we can do about it, and Congress has no business being involved.  In fact, the questioning of Zuckerberg by the U.S. Senate is not only unconstitutional, but it is downright tyrannical.

Since when should conservatives and constitutionalists cheer government dictating to a private business owner how he runs his business?

The First Amendment was written to limit government, not private businesses or individuals.

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