These sort of libertarians drive me nuts. They decry what they perceive as an "infringement of liberty" but then fail to pay anything but lip service to the government-granted immunity from liability these companies are getting despite acting as publishers. Which they wouldn't get in AnCapistan.
Get rid of that and the problem fixes itself the first time a tech CEO serves life in prison for publishing and distributing child pornography.
Like almost everyone commenting on this, if they aren't missing the point intentionally (controlled opposition), they are pretty dense. The regulatory tools to deal with FB et al exist and are pro-liberty. Supporting free markets means opposing monopolies. Supporting free markets means corps are responsible for the shit they put on the Internet. Break up these monopolies now (in addition to what you said). If any regulators had any balls it would be done already. Congress can order regulators to act, if necessary.
Yeah, Texas LP is a particularly bad state affiliate. They're populated with the old guard of the party, who basically just want to use it as a social club to complain about weed laws together. Luckily, Mises Caucus is making good progress taking the party over. Texas will unfortunately be one of the last strongholds of the "pragmatists" to fall.
These sort of libertarians drive me nuts. They decry what they perceive as an "infringement of liberty" but then fail to pay anything but lip service to the government-granted immunity from liability these companies are getting despite acting as publishers. Which they wouldn't get in AnCapistan.
Get rid of that and the problem fixes itself the first time a tech CEO serves life in prison for publishing and distributing child pornography.
Like almost everyone commenting on this, if they aren't missing the point intentionally (controlled opposition), they are pretty dense. The regulatory tools to deal with FB et al exist and are pro-liberty. Supporting free markets means opposing monopolies. Supporting free markets means corps are responsible for the shit they put on the Internet. Break up these monopolies now (in addition to what you said). If any regulators had any balls it would be done already. Congress can order regulators to act, if necessary.
Yeah, Texas LP is a particularly bad state affiliate. They're populated with the old guard of the party, who basically just want to use it as a social club to complain about weed laws together. Luckily, Mises Caucus is making good progress taking the party over. Texas will unfortunately be one of the last strongholds of the "pragmatists" to fall.