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We may agree philosophically, but you are either not aware of how enmeshed political power is with a few large communications platforms or you are purposefully
by nanis 5y ago
We may agree philosophically, but you are either not aware of how enmeshed political power is with a few large communications platforms or you are purposefully distracting from that point.
> it's to prevent and disallow them from being that powerful in the first place!
That ship has sailed. The here and now is the fact that we have a communication, tracking, and employment oligopoly in cahoots with the current centers of political power interested in preventing competition to both.
- ncallaway 5y ago> That ship has sailed. It hasn't. Monopolies have become powerful, then been disassembled before, and it can happen again. Standard Oil was broken up, as was Bell Systems. With some new legislation and lawsuits, we could absolutely reduce the power of Google/YouTube and Facebook over online communications. I agree that those entities have already become far too powerful, but we can remove their power, and shred them into smaller pieces if we had the will to. I agree that we may not have the will. But I disagree that the solution is to put more constraints on the speech rights of private entities. You don't fight censorship with compelled speech. You fight monopolies with aggressive anti-trust legislation and action.