Posted on 07/30/2017 3:31:04 PM PDT by aquila48
Google and Faceplant are already censoring the right.
Which, as private entities, they have the right to do. (And we have the right not to use them if they do.) Once they’re regulated as public utilities, they’re not really private entities anymore and will need to do the bidding of the government.
Which, as private entities, they have the right to do. (And we have the right not to use them if they do.) Once they’re regulated as public utilities, they’re not really private entities anymore and will need to do the bidding of the government.
The government is constrained by the constitution. Google and Facemace are the ones who decided to play politics. They played targeting us because they could.
Do you want government regulating them?
That’s what Bannon is calling for.
He does realize that part of government regulating utilities is giving them monopoly status and making sure they stay that way?
Over what service does Google have exclusive control??
Over what service does Facebook have exclusive control??
I want them legally unable to control speech. If that means the government takes over them fine. They are an arm of the Dem party now.
You want them to lose control of what’s posted on their own cyberproperty?
Government REGULATION is the PROBLEM.. NOT the solution.
exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices.
Please note the "or control that makes possible the manipulation of prices" part which you left out.
Perhaps the most obvious example is Google's control over the internet ad keyword/bidding advertisement market with ad-words. There are very few alternatives to monetizing a web page. To make an alternative is damn near impossible as things stand though, since you must simataniously sign up advertisers and clients--and clients will not wish to bother signing up without advertisers, and advertisers will not bother signing up without clients.
In a similar way, think about how an alternative company to what Facebook does could get started. The pay off to the user is that you can contact all your friends and relatives...but of course you can't until the new service signs everybody up...but why would people sign up before everybody else is on there? Thus Facebook pretty much has exclusive control over the niche.
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