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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.
We just define "establishment" differently. The vast majority of Republicans are "establishment". Mitt Romney is a very liberal RINO who doesn't agree with most of the "establishment" platform. He works fine as a Massachusetts "republican" because he is right wing in a deep blue state, but not nationally and absolutely not for Utah.
I think you see "establishment" as "co-opted by special interests", which makes the word a slur not a description. Basically no one would admit to that, and it would not clearly describe anyone. I see "establishment" as "willing to be a team player and show loyalty to the party and advance the Party's goals instead of trying to be a 'maverick'". So Liz Cheney is a perfect example of a maverick who went against the establishment. John McCain, Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, Ben Sasse, and various others were/are all anti-establishment.
I reject all ideology. While some ideologies might be superior to others, none of them is 100% correct all the time. We always need to follow what works and what gets us the best result for society overall and long term. We have over 100 years of history of how all kinds of ideologies fuck up societies, it is just that left wing ideologies have been the most aggressive in constantly trying to fuck shit up all the time.