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We regulate private businesses all the time when their actions are harmful to the public. Labor laws, environmental laws, workplace safety, discrimination, and
by imgabe 5y ago
We regulate private businesses all the time when their actions are harmful to the public. Labor laws, environmental laws, workplace safety, discrimination, and on and on. "Private business" is not a magic phrase that means you get to do whatever you want with no regard for the rest of society.
- secondaryacct 5y agoIf the State wants a fully regulated communication system, it can put facebook under the same umbrella as the telcos. Interestingly, it will surely be what you dislike so what is your point? If facebook becomes public utility I want to be able to regulate speech on it with my tax money. If it's private, I dont care if it tries to regulate harmful speech the way it wants as long as it doesnt impact where my tax money is going (so I dont want to pay for girls empowerement to have facebook massively undermining it by letting sheikhs explain the youth how to beat their unruly wives)
- imgabe 5y ago> If facebook becomes public utility I want to be able to regulate speech on it with my tax money. What makes you think you should be able to do that? Do you get to cut off someone's water utility if they say something you don't like?
- guerrilla 5y ago> Do you get to cut off someone's water utility if they say something you don't like? Coming soon to a Hell on Earth near you.