> Government regulation has a high potential for abuse for a number of reasons Can you identify any government regulation that is enforceable where that enforc

> Government regulation has a high potential for abuse for a number of reasons Can you identify any government regulation that is enforceable where that enforcement isn't rooted in the monopoly on violence? Note that violence doesn't just mean capital or corporal punishment, it also depriving individuals of their possessions (for example, fines, asset forfeiture, etc), or their freedom. Each case where government can impose regulation carries the full weight of the threat of violence. If not for that threat of violence, the regulation would have no meaningful impact. > However there may well exist cases where broader freedom of expression requires (...) protection against private entities. I agree with you, but I don't think the answer here is to give government a mandate to dictate a policy of freedom of expression, I think the correct step is to evaluate whether a business has grown sufficiently large to constitute a threat to expression in society, and I think the model of being a monopoly is close to that. Disney is a stellar example; they don't own all of the movie studios, but their enormous size and ownership of the intellectual property rights to such a huge swath of cultural history for the last century, and the way they use those rights is growing increasingly harmful. I don't think it's right for government to say that Disney should start distributing adult films, but I certainly think it's appropriate to introduce regulations governing how a company like Disney can negotiate for, or more practically, dictate terms to movie theatres and retail outfits to carry or distribute their products. > Broadly, I think you are tending to conflate infrastructure providers with social networks (and similar end user sites) I do, but that is a separate discussion around the way that major platforms, cloud service providers, content studios, transit providers, and online retailers have become interconnected through acquisitions and competition that it has gotten to the point where I treat any online service as a "temporarily disenfranchised critical infrastructure". This is largely due to the idea that for many online services the end goal is to either achieve enough market share to become a competitor to another internet company, or to be acquired trying.