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Why does the federal government miss the ball Every. Single. Time? Twitter censoring conservatives wouldn't be a big deal if Twitter had more competitors. Amer
by apatters 6y ago
Why does the federal government miss the ball Every. Single. Time?
Twitter censoring conservatives wouldn't be a big deal if Twitter had more competitors. America keeps on saying it's committed to free and open markets. Why doesn't it make one here?
Break up Twitter. Or make them open up their protocols. Or whatever. I don't care. Just promote competition. Enough of these quasi-fascist state regulated oligopolies run and reaped by 1-3 companies while the rest of us stand in the bread lines. It's not the American way, not the democratic way, not the capitalist way, and I'm sick of it.
- loopz 6y agoIsn't this what the free market is supposed to deliver? Now you want a marginalized gov under fire to save you?
- apatters 6y agoThere's nothing marginalized about the American government, it's the biggest and most powerful government in the world and it has an unfathomably huge budget. I haven't seen a free market in America in decades. Free markets can be destroyed by governments or by megacorps, but most often they're destroyed by a collaboration between the two. Put two and two together and resist.
- mhh__ 6y ago> Twitter censoring conservatives wouldn't be a big deal if Twitter had more competitors How much evidence of this in practice is there (I mean evidence of systemic bias throughout the site beyond what could reasonably be expected with millions and millions of tweets etc.)? The fact the Donald Trump himself tweeted this [1] recently and it's still up, suggests they aren't exactly thorough. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/28/trump-retweets-video-saying-only-good-democrat-is-dead-democrat/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/28/trump-ret...