Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg are more powerful than many heads of state.

When the US ratified the First Amendment, we had no way of knowing how vital to the average American’s communication a pair of private companies would be. Saying that Trump’s Twitter ban isn’t a free speech issue because of who precisely made the call feels like a technicality.

But flip side, we also didn’t know there would be something like social media, which can so effectively magnify the loudest and most polarizing voices. That needs regulating, and I don’t trust the government to do it.

Of course, these businesses encouraged those negative effects for profit, which helped cause the current mess in the first place. I don’t think there’s a perfect solution, but in the long term, increasing tech companies' liability and enforcing anti-trust regulations seem like good ways to curb their behavior without putting too much power in the government’s hands.

In the short term, though, banning Trump was definitely the right call, made by the only people currently empowered to make it.