“It is a virtual monopoly.”
It is in no way protected from competition so start a rival service to compete with it.
“Should never be” and “is” are two different things. It is being used as a significant means of communications, and we cannot ignore the influence it has on the public.”
Are you saying that since the business model is successful it should be “nationalize” or “regulated” to make it more fair?
Monopolies are protected from competition by their very nature of being monopolies. How does one squeeze into a market that is controlled by a monopoly without having at least as much wealth as the aforementioned monopoly?
Are you saying that since the business model is successful it should be “nationalize” or “regulated” to make it more fair?
I am saying that since it is a business that impacts a critical necessity of our form of government, it should not be allowed to be maintained under the control of a party that is hostile to our form of government.
The ability to control communications in America gives those people who have that control a stranglehold on our means of making decisions. They have effectively stuffed the ballot boxes before the election even begins.
They "stuff" the ballot boxes by manipulating the public, by depriving them of information that the public needs to make rational decisions.
Our system of governance is absolutely dependent upon the public having good information. If you feed them only bad information, they will make bad decisions, such as electing a no accomplishment, mouthy, arrogant, affirmative action idiot.
Here is what Benjamin Franklin said on the subject.
Printers are educated in the Belief, that when Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick; and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter: