I'm all for having both govt and private structures to support on-shore manufacturing. The outsourcing of the USA's manufacturing core is a strategic blunder o

I'm all for having both govt and private structures to support on-shore manufacturing. The outsourcing of the USA's manufacturing core is a strategic blunder of historic scale. While we thought we were exploiting cheap Chinese labor, the CCP was actually thinking in 5-, 100- and 500-year plans to exploit our quarterly-profits myopia. and we fell for it. But here, I find it particularly ironic that these companies want all the protection of govt regs like Section 230, insulating them from responsibility of content they host and platform, but now want the govt to step in, far too late, and fix the shortage that is harming them. They are all "libertarian" scolds about govt interference, until they could use some. Since they collectively have something on the scale of more money than the USG, and they think the USG is a waste of time, they should implement such a consortium themselves. I say that not merely out of annoyance at the hypocrisy, but I really think that such a consortium of FAANG, Intel MS, Tesla, Micron, and others could much more rapidly and effectively setup such an innovative chip fab co-op or some other structure, and could really kick ass in global manufacturing. If they really believe their patter, they should just do it. The best time was 10 years ago, the second best time is now.