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It surprises me that people still think big tech and social media companies are acting in a free market independent of political considerations. You have high-r

• TulliusCicero 6y ago
  Of course they aren't. But one party constantly talks about how businesses should be left alone as a principle, then immediately abandons that as soon as it works against them. It's naked hypocrisy.
  • abernard1 6y ago
    Out of curiosity, what monopolies are conservatives supporting these days? I am seriously drawing a blank. But there's another hypocrisy to go around as well. The left used to talk about "the best way to combat speech is with more speech" and that monopolies were evil and that Big Oil had too much power and that the Patriot Act was undue surveillance. We now have a Democratic party deeply committed to restricting speech in the public arena, whether that's academia, social media, or cancel culture in general. They are backing tech companies which are the closest things to monopolies and 10X bigger than Exxon Mobil ever was. They're advocating for new measures on domestic surveillance for terrorism. Oh yeah, and Net Neutrality was overturned and the ISPs didn't ban things. It was the people who argued for Net Neutrality (Google, Twitter, Facebook) that are committing all the horror stories that were supposed to happen with deregulation.
    • loopz 6y ago
      Maybe because of sedition, threats and extortion: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/09/media/reliable-sources-january-8/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/09/media/reliable-sources-ja...