Free Speech????

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Originally Posted by d-ray657

Actually, the question sought context. Is the harm caused by the possession of monopoly power in those industries as important as the harm caused by monopoly power over a ubiquitous platform for communication? The monopoly power exercised by Google and Facebook is indeed frightening, but so is the monopoly power in the other industries. If we are going to argue that there should be legal intervention to dissipate such power by Facebook and Google, it should be recognized that it is legitimate to intervene in the other industries too.

This is not what you asked and thanks for clarifying. Zero's questions were as pertinent and more clearly stated, yet you still avoid answering them.

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Originally Posted by nailer

This is not what you asked and thanks for clarifying. Zero's questions were as pertinent and more clearly stated, yet you still avoid answering them.

Fair enough. Under the property laws that are now in effect, the social conscience is defined by the owner of the platform. If there is monopoly control over the available platforms for communication, then anti-trust enforcement should be an option. The current reality is that the anti-trust laws have been largely ignored for decades. If there is going to be renewed emphasis on enforcement, it should go far beyond Facebook and Google.

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Originally Posted by d-ray657

Fair enough. Under the property laws that are now in effect, the social conscience is defined by the owner of the platform. If there is monopoly control over the available platforms for communication, then anti-trust enforcement should be an option. The current reality is that the anti-trust laws have been largely ignored for decades. If there is going to be renewed emphasis on enforcement, it should go far beyond Facebook and Google.

Thanks. The state of our antitrust enforcement is a good example of how far corporations and their politicians have turned back the clock.

Not a legal perspective, but doesn't social conscience vary by societal group and even vary among members within the group? To further this line of thought, consider that society's groups are not mutually exclusive when it comes to membership.

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Originally Posted by nailer

Thanks. The state of our antitrust enforcement is a good example of how far corporations and their politicians have turned back the clock.

Not a legal perspective, but doesn't social conscience vary by societal group and even vary among members within the group? To further this line of thought, consider that society's groups are not mutually exclusive when it comes to membership.

This is making me late for work. I'm glad I'm my own boss.

There are issues on which there is a near consensus - although the consensus shifts from time to time. There appears to be a broad consensus that nazism and advocacy of white supremacy are morally repugnant. Members of many many groups - including it seems, captains of industry - appear to agree with that proposition.

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Originally Posted by d-ray657

This is making me late for work. I'm glad I'm my own boss.

There are issues on which there is a near consensus - although the consensus shifts from time to time. There appears to be a broad consensus that nazism and advocacy of white supremacy are morally repugnant. Members of many many groups - including it seems, captains of industry - appear to agree with that proposition.

As do I.

Now get to work defending the sovereign citizen from our Capitalist Pig Robber Baron overlords. American Fascism in other words.