Last week, President Trump declared – without any supporting facts – that Google has a hidden agenda to suppress conservative viewpoints. President Trump used Twitter – another major internet platform which he accused of liberal bias – to make his accusation. Shortly after, White House Director of the National Economic Council Larry Kudlow said the administration was “taking a look at” regulating Google.

Here are four reasons why the White House is wrong about a tech bias and what to do about it.

First, Google’s news search elevates websites using quantitative factors including web traffic, age of site and engagement. That’s why the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times rate higher on the results page than the alt-right InfoWars or liberal Mother Jones. (I encourage all to read Zach Graves’ excellent technical explanation of why the bias accusations against Google are factually bogus). Online platforms such as Facebook, Google and Twitter are for-profit ventures whose business models depend on accumulating the greatest number of users and allowing more voices to speak freely. It would make zero economic sense to suppress political views held by millions of Americans. Users would leave, profits would fall, and shareholders would not stand for it.

Second, this White House is an enormous beneficiary of the same online platforms it criticizes. The President’s electoral victory can be attributed, in part, to his masterful use of social media to accumulate followers and amplify his messages. Even now, the Trump White House adeptly uses social platforms to talk directly with voters instead without going through the filter of mainstream media. Accusing the same sites of simultaneously “suppressing” his views makes no sense.

Third, government dictating what websites can and cannot say violates the fundamental tenants of the First Amendment. These demands are a return to the “fairness doctrine,” a widely reviled and discarded Federal Communications Commission rule which sought to forcibly balance viewpoints on broadcast TV. Under our system, no one – not even the President – has the right to demand positive media coverage.

Fourth, we live in a free market society. The beauty of the internet is that it offers low barriers to entry and there is nothing preventing someone from building new search engines or social media sites that use different parameters to rank content. I welcome Donald Trump Jr.’s call for media diversity and a new social network built by “Silicon Valley conservatives.” That’s how free markets are supposed to work – with new competition, not overregulation.