“You may not like it but it is coming because the tech masters of the universe need to be brought to heel.”
Well, excuse me if I’m not too enthused about conservatives talking about bringing private businesses “to heel” by granting more power to the federal government.
“Well, excuse me if I’m not too enthused about conservatives talking about bringing private businesses “to heel” by granting more power to the federal government.”
Correcting the censorship and bad behavior of the social media giants doesn’t require government handlers to running their businesses. All that needs to be done is to codify the rights of users and open legal avenues for victims of censorship or other abuses to seek restitution via lawsuits.
Also the government, via antitrust laws, can have Twitter broken up into four or more companies and stipulate that all of their user’s Tweets appear in the same digital commons - that their apps and websites must show the other companies’s Tweets. That way they would have to compete for users based on value and customer service. When the Feds broke up Ma Bell in the 1980s they made them all support each other’s calls seamlessly and we were all the better for it.
Don’t try to tell me that you liked Ma Bell, The breakup of AT&T was the best thing ever happened to phone service. How would you like it if your phone calls were censored for language and content and you could be booted off of your carrier for having views they don’t like or for calling ‘the wrong people’ or does that not compute?