Disagree. Any company that becomes big enough to qualify as a monopoly should be nationalized. Either that or be subject to all the restrains and responsibilities of the government.
Social media, by it's nature, can't be broken into smaller companies. Therefore, these companies cannot be allowed to run privately.
Either that or be subject to all the restrains and responsibilities of the government.
This is how I know you don't deal with governments, government agencies, or government corporations.
There are no restraints and responsibilities on the government. Regulations exist fundamentally to curtail competition, not to protect you, and they never have, and they never will.
Let's try this: what if your electricity bill is too high?
Here's what I have to do:
Make an appeal to a consumer department within the government utility, justifying why my bill should be different
Have that appeal be rejected for procedural reasons because their goal is to dissuade people from appealing their bills.
Make a 2nd appeal.
Have that appeal be rejected for subjective interpretations
Be told no further appeals will be tolerated for the next 5 years
Vote for a new governor
Hilariously win election
Have that governor appoint a new Secretary of Energy
Have that new Secretary of Energy appoint a new Undersecretary of Energy
Have that new Undersecretary of Energy appoint a new head of the Consumer Relations Board
Have the new head of the Consumer Relations board of remove most of the board and replace with people who will listen to me.
Make a 3rd appeal
Have my appeal get rejected for procedural reasons
Make a 4th appeal
Have the appeal pass!
Get new electric bill
See electric bill price per kilowatt hour decrease, reducing my bill by $50!
See that my electric bill now includes a "Transportation Fee" of $50
Thank god the utilities are nationalized, I could have gotten screwed! Oh wait...
That basically happened to me.
The reality is that private companies have to make money to survive. When they fuck up and burn their customers, they are held accountable by people putting their money elsewhere.
The government, and all government corporations, steals your money. They are also the law. There is no mechanism to punish them for getting things wrong. They already took your money, and gave themselves legal immunity. Voting will very likely not change any part of the bureaucracy that you're actually having to fight unless you are voting for someone who plans on gutting the bureaucracy by tens of thousands of people, or by privatizing the institution altogether.
Without being nationalized, Twitter will die eventually.
If you Nationalize it, Parag Agrawal becomes the Secretary of Public Communications. He has no time limit, and is kept regardless of who you elect; he will probably stay at that position for the next 20 years. You do not have the right to sue Twitter.gov without permission from the government. You will be taxed to pay for Twitter. You will then be asked to pay a subscription fee on top of that for Twitter's maintenance. Twitter's budget will balloon wildly out of control, and we will have to print money to pay for it, making you deal with the consequence of inflation, on top of it's tax cost and subscription. The quality of the site will dramatically decrease. Rumble, Truth Social, Gettr, and Gab will be re-classified as criminal enterprises that are not allowed to compete with the government. Political discrimination will be 100x worse. Twitter.gov will drag on being a horrific parasite on humanity well into 2050, 20 years after it would have gone bankrupt if private.
Because then it will be impossible to improve, it won't be allowed to fail, you will pay wildly out of pocket more than it's worth, and it will be exclusively used a political weapon going forward.
MySpace killed itself. AOL is gone. Yahoo! has been a b-list site for a decade. Netscape Navigator died. Opera was one of the first browsers, and has been rebuilt from the ground up more than once.
Well, yes, it would be very bad if the State of Texas nationalized Twitter and Facebook. Luckily that didn't happen.
Disagree. Any company that becomes big enough to qualify as a monopoly should be nationalized. Either that or be subject to all the restrains and responsibilities of the government.
Social media, by it's nature, can't be broken into smaller companies. Therefore, these companies cannot be allowed to run privately.
This is how I know you don't deal with governments, government agencies, or government corporations.
There are no restraints and responsibilities on the government. Regulations exist fundamentally to curtail competition, not to protect you, and they never have, and they never will.
Let's try this: what if your electricity bill is too high?
Here's what I have to do:
Thank god the utilities are nationalized, I could have gotten screwed! Oh wait...
That basically happened to me.
The reality is that private companies have to make money to survive. When they fuck up and burn their customers, they are held accountable by people putting their money elsewhere.
The government, and all government corporations, steals your money. They are also the law. There is no mechanism to punish them for getting things wrong. They already took your money, and gave themselves legal immunity. Voting will very likely not change any part of the bureaucracy that you're actually having to fight unless you are voting for someone who plans on gutting the bureaucracy by tens of thousands of people, or by privatizing the institution altogether.
Without being nationalized, Twitter will die eventually.
If you Nationalize it, Parag Agrawal becomes the Secretary of Public Communications. He has no time limit, and is kept regardless of who you elect; he will probably stay at that position for the next 20 years. You do not have the right to sue Twitter.gov without permission from the government. You will be taxed to pay for Twitter. You will then be asked to pay a subscription fee on top of that for Twitter's maintenance. Twitter's budget will balloon wildly out of control, and we will have to print money to pay for it, making you deal with the consequence of inflation, on top of it's tax cost and subscription. The quality of the site will dramatically decrease. Rumble, Truth Social, Gettr, and Gab will be re-classified as criminal enterprises that are not allowed to compete with the government. Political discrimination will be 100x worse. Twitter.gov will drag on being a horrific parasite on humanity well into 2050, 20 years after it would have gone bankrupt if private.
Why is that bad?
Because then it will be impossible to improve, it won't be allowed to fail, you will pay wildly out of pocket more than it's worth, and it will be exclusively used a political weapon going forward.
MySpace killed itself. AOL is gone. Yahoo! has been a b-list site for a decade. Netscape Navigator died. Opera was one of the first browsers, and has been rebuilt from the ground up more than once.
This is how things run.