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IMO that's a bit of a stretch. "Oligopolies embedded with the inbound political administration are collaborating to shut out oppositional voice" seems to be a h

IMO that's a bit of a stretch. "Oligopolies embedded with the inbound political administration are collaborating to shut out oppositional voice" seems to be a hallmark of modern American politics, on both sides. Easy enough for the free market to fix, right? There needs to be a way to set up a free-speech/right-wing-friendly social media company that also manages not to automatically become a hotbed of conspiracy nuts and antisemites. Weirdly that seems quite difficult to do. /s

aksss 6y ago
The libertarian critique is applicable to both sides. Not sure why you see it as a stretch - there’s a revolving door of jobs between some of these commercial organizations and the political ones. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/16/the-biden-teams-tug-of-war-over-facebook-436672 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/16/the-biden-teams-tug... Insofar as the free market is concerned, yeah, I think the criticism would be that lower barriers to entry and a restriction on anti-competitive practices would be a positive thing (whether via their M&A moves or overwhelming market ownership). Pointing to righteousness and virtue to shutdown Parler may help some of the faithful sleep better at night, but when simply looked at as a conveniently anti-competitive move for both commercial and political ends it’s quite a bit more banal.
- maxehmookau 6y ago
  > Pointing to righteousness and virtue to shutdown Parler may help some of the faithful sleep better at night, Shutting down garbage-fires of anti-Jewish sentiment, racism and patently incorrect conspiracies isn't righteousness. It's right.
  - gedy 6y ago
    Twitter, Facebook allow Iran to post such content, no?
    - aksss 6y ago
      Shoot, they allow US citizens to post such content frequently, let alone other other countries.
  - aksss 6y ago
    This morning, I see Glenn Greenwald is calling this out: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-show-of-monopolistic https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-sho... > isn’t righteousness, it’s right That’s what the quality of righteousness refers to.

aksss 6y ago

The libertarian critique is applicable to both sides. Not sure why you see it as a stretch - there’s a revolving door of jobs between some of these commercial organizations and the political ones. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/16/the-biden-teams-tug-of-war-over-facebook-436672 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/16/the-biden-teams-tug... Insofar as the free market is concerned, yeah, I think the criticism would be that lower barriers to entry and a restriction on anti-competitive practices would be a positive thing (whether via their M&A moves or overwhelming market ownership). Pointing to righteousness and virtue to shutdown Parler may help some of the faithful sleep better at night, but when simply looked at as a conveniently anti-competitive move for both commercial and political ends it’s quite a bit more banal.

maxehmookau 6y ago
> Pointing to righteousness and virtue to shutdown Parler may help some of the faithful sleep better at night, Shutting down garbage-fires of anti-Jewish sentiment, racism and patently incorrect conspiracies isn't righteousness. It's right.
- gedy 6y ago
  Twitter, Facebook allow Iran to post such content, no?
  - aksss 6y ago
    Shoot, they allow US citizens to post such content frequently, let alone other other countries.
- aksss 6y ago
  This morning, I see Glenn Greenwald is calling this out: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-show-of-monopolistic https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-sho... > isn’t righteousness, it’s right That’s what the quality of righteousness refers to.