We aren't a fucking democracy. We are literally a corporate oligarchy masquerading as a republic. There has always been some voter fraud, but this recent election and the GA run off show that TPTB can do whatever the fuck they want. Look at Bidens cabninent for fucks sake. The last thing I want is a government controlled internet, but something tells me we won't have much of a say on this...
The only entity which can restrain the activities of corporations is the government. You can be opposed to it for ideological reasons but at some point you must accept reality. The government is at least subject to public approval in the form of voting for elected officials who serve as representatives to pass the laws.
Corporations by contrast only serve the interest of private individuals.
Well, the prevailing wisdom these days appears to be that the easiest way to solve the problem of people making the wrong decisions is to remove their ability to make decisions entirely...
I was thinking about this very thing myself last night. Albeit, I probably wouldn't have made the headlines the same, the general content is. The point being, where is the line drawn between a corporate platform that has free will and a service that you pay for that cannot restrict use due to speech, religion, etc?
It took what, 72 hours, to go from "Twitter is a private platform, you still have your 1A just not here, make your own platform." to "what, no you can't look at your platform on this device you bought because the company that made it disagrees with you and no you can't operate that platform on this service you pay for because the company that sells that service disagrees with you." We are to the point that it's not much of a stretch to "no, you can't have running water because that's a private corporation and you are using that water for cooking, cleaning, and drinking in support of speech we don't agree with." I think that's protected in the law, and I'd argue that at the bare minimum Internet access should be protected under the law as well.
Not that the law matters anymore, or well the Constitution. What really bugs me is not even the government. It's the masses of people who see these things happen and are they grumbling about well they guess that's ok when they really disagree because they are afraid the KGB might hear about their opinion and show up? No, it's celebrated far and wide. "Censorship, yay, it's great because you aren't censoring me yet!" It's just pathetic.
This will not fix anything and just centralize control over the internet. The US already has issues with computer tech innovation. Further restrictions will just accelerate it.
Wanting the government to solve problems it creates by adding more layers of government seems to be an obsession liberals have.
We aren't a fucking democracy. We are literally a corporate oligarchy masquerading as a republic. There has always been some voter fraud, but this recent election and the GA run off show that TPTB can do whatever the fuck they want. Look at Bidens cabninent for fucks sake. The last thing I want is a government controlled internet, but something tells me we won't have much of a say on this...
The only entity which can restrain the activities of corporations is the government. You can be opposed to it for ideological reasons but at some point you must accept reality. The government is at least subject to public approval in the form of voting for elected officials who serve as representatives to pass the laws.
Corporations by contrast only serve the interest of private individuals.
Nigger, where have you been the last 3 months?
At this point, why would you want to? Just kick the can down the road so your kids have to deal with all these problems all over again?
Well, the prevailing wisdom these days appears to be that the easiest way to solve the problem of people making the wrong decisions is to remove their ability to make decisions entirely...
We're already so far up shits creek we might as well throw away the paddle
The paddle's already been thrown away. Or did you think the next round of elections in 2022 will suddenly be free of fraud for some magical reason?
I was thinking about this very thing myself last night. Albeit, I probably wouldn't have made the headlines the same, the general content is. The point being, where is the line drawn between a corporate platform that has free will and a service that you pay for that cannot restrict use due to speech, religion, etc?
It took what, 72 hours, to go from "Twitter is a private platform, you still have your 1A just not here, make your own platform." to "what, no you can't look at your platform on this device you bought because the company that made it disagrees with you and no you can't operate that platform on this service you pay for because the company that sells that service disagrees with you." We are to the point that it's not much of a stretch to "no, you can't have running water because that's a private corporation and you are using that water for cooking, cleaning, and drinking in support of speech we don't agree with." I think that's protected in the law, and I'd argue that at the bare minimum Internet access should be protected under the law as well.
Not that the law matters anymore, or well the Constitution. What really bugs me is not even the government. It's the masses of people who see these things happen and are they grumbling about well they guess that's ok when they really disagree because they are afraid the KGB might hear about their opinion and show up? No, it's celebrated far and wide. "Censorship, yay, it's great because you aren't censoring me yet!" It's just pathetic.
This will not fix anything and just centralize control over the internet. The US already has issues with computer tech innovation. Further restrictions will just accelerate it.
Wanting the government to solve problems it creates by adding more layers of government seems to be an obsession liberals have.