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Thought experiment: if a single corporation owned a website within which 100% of public speech was conducted, would you still be so eager to defend their "right
by banads 6y ago
Thought experiment: if a single corporation owned a website within which 100% of public speech was conducted, would you still be so eager to defend their "right" to control the thoughts and words of the entire world?
- BurningFrog 6y agoI'm very much in the camp of "the site owner sets the policy on their site". But with the Network Effect naturally concentrating communication to a few sites, I'm starting to feel conflicted about that.
- imustbeevil 6y agoThat sounds like a monopoly problem, not a free speech problem. There's way better explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23576919 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23576919
- banads 6y ago>That sounds like a monopoly problem Okay let's follow that logic: precisely at what point does that become a monopoly problem?