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Then use the power of the government to regulate and break up the tech monopolies. The answer is simple and obvious. I don't want GoDaddy to have the authority
by myWindoonn 6y ago
Then use the power of the government to regulate and break up the tech monopolies. The answer is simple and obvious.
I don't want GoDaddy to have the authority to remove arbitrary folks from the Internet. I want GoDaddy to not exist at all. I want large datacenter owners to be regulated like utilities.
However, the same political stance which desires all of the violence and hate against our government is also the political stance which insists that our government is useless and bloated, too big and decadent to achieve victories for the people.
Who do you think gave responsibility to Silicon Valley? Who signed up millions of Americans for Facebook, retweeted millions of context-free quips, opened millions of Google email accounts, and bought millions of iPhones? It was the American public, including the 20% of Americans who voted for an open fascist for president.
If you want an end to censorship, then you should also want an end to corporatism and capitalism. That's the cognitive dissonance that is worth examining.
- yew 6y agoBreaking up monopolies sounds good in the abstract. (At least, it does to me. Presumably that doesn't go without saying around here.) But these particular monopolies have the potential to make a serious positive impression on the world, now that they've finally chosen to act. Given the state of things we shouldn't rush to abandon that opportunity. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/trump-is-banned-who-is-next/617622/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/trump-is-b... I haven't seen too much consideration of the potential (more the usual scaremongering) but here's something that popped up earlier along those lines. Social media is a lever for politicians. Why not take the chance to deny that to extremism around the world?