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I'm curious about any reading material that illuminates the relationship between these two things: 1. healthy amount of diversity and competition among a large
by jancsika 6y ago
I'm curious about any reading material that illuminates the relationship between these two things:
1. healthy amount of diversity and competition among a large number of publishers
2. robustness of free speech protections
My speculation is that the more competition there is among a large number of publishers, and the more diverse their reasons are for publishing, the harder it becomes for attackers to chip away at free speech protections.
But it's just speculation so I'd like some background reading on the topic.
- Animats 6y agoMy speculation is that the more competition there is among a large number of publishers, and the more diverse their reasons are for publishing, the harder it becomes for attackers to chip away at free speech protections. It's certainly worse if a small number of providers have a monopoly. The European Union uses, as a rule of thumb, that there have to be four independent alternatives in a market for price competition to work. That may also be a useful guide for free expression. Book publishers now have a choke point - Amazon. That's a monopsony problem, where there's one dominant buyer. When there were many publishers and many bookstores, there was no central choke point. That's over.