> We live in a new world; the old norms no longer apply This feels a bit defeatist, like accepting a new dictator because the “old norms no longer apply”. Big

> We live in a new world; the old norms no longer apply This feels a bit defeatist, like accepting a new dictator because the “old norms no longer apply”. Big tech companies are that dictator. They have garnered a critical mass of power due to a lack of regulation and anti-trust enforcement, and are using it to support their predominant ideologies. Members of our federal government recognize this and have regularly started applying pressure to these companies to perform censorship on their behalf. Is that really a new norm that we must accept or a blatant abuse of power and a runaround on the first amendment? I think what we have really, is a new product landscape where network effects create natural barriers to competition that we need to deal with. Our laws and enforcement of laws haven’t caught up to this reality. This has allowed a powerful tyranny of the technologically powerful to manifest, outside the scope of current law. The rationalizations such as radicalization and so on don’t convince me - those seem like the socially acceptable virtuous justifications that cloak a simple abuse of power.