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The only point where I disagree is that I believe the line should be drawn by democratic means. It's all fine and good when a company can unilaterally set the
by skohan 5y ago
The only point where I disagree is that I believe the line should be drawn by democratic means. It's all fine and good when a company can unilaterally set the standard so long as it's something we agree with. But what will you think when it's your speech, or your business which gets classified as unacceptable by a room full of people at some web company with no oversight?
If the pandemic has taught us anything, the internet is the commons in the modern world, and currently we're ceding governance of it to private enterprise.
- MisterBastahrd 5y agoThere's no such thing as a democracy in a gerrymandered representative state. One of the reasons we have a Constitution is because the Founding Fathers didn't believe that states were capable of fully independent democratic governance. It is there to protect the people FROM democracy at a local level.
- skohan 5y agoThat seems like a very nihilistic view. If government is futile, what on earth should we do to maintain a society? I have to say, since I moved to Europe I have become much less convinced of the inherent futility of democracy.