Instead of the grocery shop's one basic transaction, owner selling to customer, the market has to allow many transactions, visitor A interacting with visitor B. In a liberal society, the guiding principle for the latter kind of transaction is _consent_.
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Replying to @St_Rev @minandychoi
ie, if A and B want to interact, the owner should generally not interfere. Now, if A _doesn't_ want to interact with B, that's a problem, and the owner may need to intervene. Thus one has police. Online, we have mute and block.
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Replying to @St_Rev @minandychoi
But where things really get complicated is if A and B want to interact, and C doesn't want them to. This can get ugly, particularly if C forms a large gang and stomps around the marketplace demanding the right to examine and forbid all transactions.
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Replying to @St_Rev @minandychoi
In a liberal society, this is generally regarded as a failure. C gaining power is good for C, bad for A and B, and bad for the health of the commons, because A and B are less able to interact for mutual benefit (and may seek coercive power themselves).
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In short, politicization and morality enforcement both damage the power of ordinary people to seek beneficial interactions. They also become cripplingly expensive as the size of the commons increases, and tend to degenerate into banditry.
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Replying to @St_Rev @minandychoi
Anyway, this is just a sketch. For further consideration, I'd start with JS Mill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Liberty
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Facebook is sort of like a grocery shop that bought up all the space in the village. That's a hard problem, I don't pretend to have an easy answer. Twitter (and Reddit) started as open spaces but are being taken over by C-type gangs who want As & Bs they don't like thrown out.
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