The internet, social media, and digital payments are the roads, telephones, and marketplace of the 21st century. The tech monopolies should not have the power to unilaterally ban people from the new public square. Free markets require open access. This is the fight.
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If what you say is true, we have to strip the right to free speech--the right to enable and promote only the ideas one believes--from all CEOs whose products become successful enough to be universally used. This is not the fight.
No. The fact that they have monopoly power makes this unlike other cases. Google is not the same as your neighborhood cake shop.
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There's no relevant difference. "Monopoly power" is just selling something that many of us deem indispensable. You don't lose your right to choose your customers just because they need you; need does not entitle one to service.
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It also enjoys a regulatory privilege by being treated as a neutral platform, even as it acts as a partisan publisher.
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Yeah, double standards shouldn't be allowed. Generally, I think our regulatory environment needs to be radically transformed (and/or abolished), which would probably eliminate unfair disparities like that entirely. I think that's where this fight should really be.
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We need to make sure everybody can legally refuse service.
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Looks like someone wants to make the internet a public utility. I’m pretty certain you were against that a couple of years ago. So much for the free market and capitalism.
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