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This seems like a move to lessen upcoming monopoly legislation by preemptively banning stuff that the government is about to deem "misleading" or "dangerous."
by ceilingcorner 5y ago
This seems like a move to lessen upcoming monopoly legislation by preemptively banning stuff that the government is about to deem "misleading" or "dangerous."
- thinkingemote 5y agoAgree totally. Both parties in the USA have had public hearing of the large tech companies. They were effectively given the ultimatum, censor or be be broken up. There was a fair bit of overlap but during the questions, the democrats were pro removal of fake news (this was during Trump's term) and the republicans were anti non competition, anti monopoly. I doubt that platform to publisher is a wise move but it's probably the only one they could do. As an aside, during the hearings it was Amazon that seemed less concerned...