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Would you agree that the market place of ideas is crippled by the presence of a “monopoly”? Not destroyed as a government could do, but crippled.
by DenisM 6y ago
Would you agree that the market place of ideas is crippled by the presence of a “monopoly”?
Not destroyed as a government could do, but crippled.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoI don't think it is. There was a time in the 90s when AOL was in a similarly dominant position with much stricter moderation policies, but the marketplace of ideas never felt crippled. Everyone just understood that the AOL sandbox was a sanitized common ground, and if you wanted frank discussions on complex or controversial topics you needed to go elsewhere. (And I don't know of any topic, no matter how controversial or offensive, that doesn't have some active forum where it's regularly discussed.)