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One approach would be to hold social media platforms to the same standard as the government in terms of user rights like freedom of speech - regardless of their terms of service.

There have been a few court rulings in Germany that go into that direction. Facebook for example was disallowed to delete some posts/sites which violated Facebooks "standards", but were permissible under the freedom of speech clause of the German basic law. However thus far courts haven't really formed a consistent opinion and also ruled the opposite. As Facebook didn't appeal the courts rulings, it hasn't gone to the federal or constitutional court level yet.