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I'm hoping with you.
But the problem with such monopolists and concentrations of power and wealth is that they are invulnerable to any backlash. That is why they behave so cavalierly.
The one chance to stop it is DeSantism, the ruthless use of government power to crush the infamous thing, instead of licking corporate boot as conservatives usually do. Jail CEOs for life. Break up companies. Deprive them of government contracts. Go after them for discriminating against whites and Asians. Go after them for discriminating based on politics. Hell, require a judicial procedure before they are allowed to censor, moderate, anything.
To quote this odious lowlife: this is an emergency.
The internet creates the "network effect" which reinforces natural monopolies over infrastructure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
This isn't new. We've had this for a very long time in the US. We dealt with it by banning companies with this monopoly power from abusing it and exerting influence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier
Justice Thomas already wrote that we need to deem large internet companies common carriers and ban them from playing God with their customers. https://www.rcfp.org/justice-thomas-knight-v-trump/
Thomas is right, as always, and his solution would fix 99% of the problems we are seeing with th authoritarian left in internet spaces.
Always love hearing from you about this sort of thing (possibly you are so woke on the topic because you yourself are so censored), as the opinion I expect from an establishment/partisan Republican is very much the opposite of this.
Not at all, Thomas is "an establishment Republican" and the vast majority of Republicans would agree with him, especially the establishment ones.
Here is another example of giga-establishment Ben Shapiro saying the same thing: https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1124049326123233289
Where you will see disagreement is from the corporate dick sucker establishment "libertarians" from Reason.com: https://reason.com/volokh/2021/07/08/the-case-against-imposing-common-carrier-restrictions-on-social-media-sites/
I consider myself mostly libertarian, but I want to vomit when I see "libertarians" gleefully calling for 0 limitations on corporations of any kind, and open borders, and other absolute retard "ideology over common sense" takes like that.
Hell no, he's a great Crusader.
What are establishment Republicans good for, other than losing, conserving nothing and cutting Goldman Sachs' taxes?
DeSantis is not establishment. Someone like Romney or Jeb Bush is.
Yes, they are beyond salvation.
Yes, I disagree with some of the libertarian stuff that you do believe in, but I respect that you do not dogmatically follow crap.
Most importantly: completely ignore the libertarians and dignity boomers who say "but if we use government power, then they'll do it to us when the pendulum swings".
Because those people are retarded NPCs who don't realize the leftists are already in the middle of doing that, and worse, to us.
They can fuck right off to a third world shithole with the leftists as far as I'm concerned.
You'd think they'd be all for being proven right. Just grab some popcorn and watch the people who spent years expanding and abusing gov power for their own benefit also take their turn under the boot. Then propose reform once both sides have had a taste of the dirt.
But if they had any long-term foresight they wouldn't be in the state they're in.
But they're totally right, and that's why we should destroy democracy.
You shouldn't empower a state that will be used by your enemies to supress you in 4 years.
So you stop handing the state over to your enemies.