I’m also not too keen on government regulation...but in this case the issue must be addressed or we’re going to have a permanent re-shaping of opinion by people who are - by their own admission - on one side of the political spectrum. That CANNOT be allowed - it is one thing to own 1 newspaper or 1 TV station and expound your views, but in this area it is like Google owns ALL but a few inconsequential papers and stations. They have the power to do quickly, what the educational system has incompletely done over the last 75 - 100 years. That is TOO much power concentrated in too few hands, and cannot be allowed to stand.
FYI, I would say the same if Google was owned by Mark Levin. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. The whole point of our system is to spread power out as much as possible, to let people make their own, informed, decisions about their lives. Google and its actions are the opposite of this.
I think that for people like you and me (I hope) the solution to BAD speech is MORE speech, not less.
I agree. Having that power in the hands of one entity is bad. Here’s an idea. Why don’t we take those great big huge government institutions run by the NSA that are tracking everything under the sun, and open them up so that any person or entity can equally tap into it (minus the surveillance stuff, of course) and mine for data?
Of course, it isn’t too hard to imagine the government taking up the cudgel and either removing or adding into it what they want, but there must be a way.
Having it in the hands of Google is even worse than the Government...and that isn’t easy to do.