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IMO introducing social media licences would be a net positive. Our laws and societies in general are not ready for entities like Facebook. At the moment we are

IMO introducing social media licences would be a net positive. Our laws and societies in general are not ready for entities like Facebook. At the moment we are ceding incredible amount of power to private company, unaccountable to general public.

WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
You are hinting at issues that apply to mega corporations in general. Your complaint seems to be that we aren't as used to harm done by mega-platforms - as we are to harm done by other mega corporations. Giving Govs unconstitutional power over everyone's speech seems like a poor solution to the problem of corporations that wield too much power over us.
- 5560675260 5y ago
  I believe that we are loosing ability to combat harm done by mega-corporations in general. Allowing few mega-platforms to have control over most of the political discussions erodes this ability even further. > Giving Govs unconstitutional power over everyone's speech Could you elaborate on how would adding checks on social media platform operations would compromise everyone's speech? Looking at standards set by gun regulations, I can't agree about unconstitutionality either.
  - WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
    > Could you elaborate on how would adding checks on social media platform operations would compromise everyone's speech? I don't need to. Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech The Constitution declares that Gov can't compel or restrict speech. Not even if that effort is labeled as 'adding checks'. > I believe that we are losing ability to combat harm done by mega-corporations in general Sure. This has always been the case. Monopolies, duopolies, anti-consumer collusion, etc is all anti-capitalistic. An historically effective measure against those types of anti-capitalistic corporate behavior is to break up those corps. As far as the ongoing harm done to the public interest by major corps in general, that's mostly beyond what I'm looking to get into, ATM.

WarOnPrivacy 5y ago

You are hinting at issues that apply to mega corporations in general. Your complaint seems to be that we aren't as used to harm done by mega-platforms - as we are to harm done by other mega corporations. Giving Govs unconstitutional power over everyone's speech seems like a poor solution to the problem of corporations that wield too much power over us.

5560675260 5y ago
I believe that we are loosing ability to combat harm done by mega-corporations in general. Allowing few mega-platforms to have control over most of the political discussions erodes this ability even further. > Giving Govs unconstitutional power over everyone's speech Could you elaborate on how would adding checks on social media platform operations would compromise everyone's speech? Looking at standards set by gun regulations, I can't agree about unconstitutionality either.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
  > Could you elaborate on how would adding checks on social media platform operations would compromise everyone's speech? I don't need to. Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech The Constitution declares that Gov can't compel or restrict speech. Not even if that effort is labeled as 'adding checks'. > I believe that we are losing ability to combat harm done by mega-corporations in general Sure. This has always been the case. Monopolies, duopolies, anti-consumer collusion, etc is all anti-capitalistic. An historically effective measure against those types of anti-capitalistic corporate behavior is to break up those corps. As far as the ongoing harm done to the public interest by major corps in general, that's mostly beyond what I'm looking to get into, ATM.