The internet was suppose to be the great equalizer. What a huge disappointment.
It’s only going to be a level playing field if the giant media platforms are forced to treat all comers equally.
Basically a digital version of the very first regulatory law, the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, which came about only after years of the railroads abusing their market dominance by selecting winners and losers among their customers.
the internet IS the great equalizer. Failing to innovate more than a few social platforms is the problem. How many times do we hear, facebook did this, twitter did that, patreon, GoFundMe, etcetcetc. Why aren’t there a hundred facebooks or twitters or patreons? Why do we settle? What happened to American ingenuity that they get the final word?
We graduate thousands of really smart IT guys every year from thousands of colleges. And then stagnate into the status quo, the acceptable, the convenient, the easy street.
why are you smart people letting others control all the market share when the market is screaming for alternatives? What one man can do another man can do. So do it.
Conservatives won't fight for it. They play the "Muh private corporashun" card and shrug their shoulders, mostly out of feeble ignorance. I'd bet 75% of the active posters here have never heard of Patreon.