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To: Kaslin

I say:

LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF ANTITRUST LAW ON THE ‘SOCIAL MEDIA’ COMPANIES ....

...make them provide a public forum for FREE SPEECH w/o ANY censorship based on political points of view ... let the markeplace of ideas decide who wins ...


10 posted on 05/27/2019 11:56:18 AM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: Simon Foxx; Jim 0216
As I've written previously, for those in favor of "trust busting" it is important to understand that your stance makes you philosophical cousins of the DNC.

The power of the federal government to break up private enterprises is not found in the Constitution. The foundation of Leviathan's "trust-busting" is - are you ready? - the Commerce Clause! Yes, that's right...the same abused favorite-of-statists lever to effectively regulate everything under the sun is the basis of "anti-trust" laws in the US.

Therefore, when you cheerfully suggest that Trump break up Amazon, FB, Twitter, and any other firm you dislike, you are also giving philosophical sanction to Schumer and Pelosi etc to tax away ammo, most of the New Deal, and pretty much every despotic economic law in the US since the 1930s.

I get it: these firms wield great power and access to data etc. I also understand nobody is forcing you to buy their products. Therefore I do not see the philosophical congruence of simultaneously saying Bernie is a dope and we dislike socialism and crony capitalism etc but then support the government using an unenumerated power to break up a company that offers a service people voluntarily use.

Trump will someday not be president and someday we will have a ghastly DNC apparatchik heading the Executive branch. When that President pushes to break up FR or Fox or Diamonds and Silk on antitrust grounds, I can sleep well knowing I didn't help contribute to the right-wing antitrust witch hunt.

Oh, and FB and Amazon and Google will likely be like IBM at that time...a once-feared firm that is now still big but yesterday's news.


27 posted on 05/27/2019 12:22:59 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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