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The missing distinction here is between a public utility with monopoly privileges (more like Google) and just some business (GoDaddy or some gym). Nazis should
by eli_gottlieb 9y ago
The missing distinction here is between a public utility with monopoly privileges (more like Google) and just some business (GoDaddy or some gym).
Nazis should be able to use public utilities, but the thing is, if we decide Google is a public utility, then so should communists, pornographers, drug dealers, criminal gangs, et al. And in fact, great, let's do that! Let's pass those statutes, let's break up the internet monopolies, let's decentralize and encrypt everything we can, all the time.
But let's also make sure that up until the very moment those statutes pass, we're not giving Nazis special favors.
- leereeves 9y agoThe problem is what happens in the meantime, when Google is effectively a public utility but not regulated as one.
- ForRealsies 9y agoWe're already seeing freedom of speech liberties clashing with social media 'public utilities' (Twitter, Facebook, etc).
- eli_gottlieb 9y agoA grand unity coalition of leftist and rightist activists gather together to push for public utility classification together? (I know, I know, but God forbid we all admit when we really do have common goals?)