▲ | Dylan16807 2 hours ago | |
> You’re seemingly arguing against free markets. You're only talking about the people that like a feature. Why do you need a free market for that if every company can do it? Not everything has to be a free market. There are reasons to use competition but not this reason. > the government should not be in the business of deciding what kind of speech makes people happy I did not say or intentionally imply they should. > People should have the freedom to choose the media they consume. Compelled speech takes that choice away Not if the compelling is just that they can't ban content. That only adds choice. > If your problem with Google is how much influence they have then yes, you are talking about antitrust. That’s the regulatory mechanism by which excessive corporate influence can be restricted. There can be other mechanisms, and more importantly my argument there isn't about mechanisms. They are barely barely humanlike, so human rights are barely barely relevant. > “A little” is still more than nothing which was your previous assertion. You may be comfortable with the rising temperature of our shared pot of water but I say it is a cause for concern. It's barely any increase because we already have common carrier rules. And I stand by the statement that it doesn't erode fundamental rights. The right of giant corporations to have free speech is at the edge, not fundamental. And a rule like that increases the free speech of so many actual humans. |