Posted on 04/09/2018 11:44:28 AM PDT by AAABEST
I consider myself (mostly) an Anarcho capitalist – which means I’m nearly never in favor of regulating or stifling business. However, herp-derp left-wing silicon barons are in the beginnings of exploiting and exerting inordinate control over American society and business. Not good. Not capitalism.
The CEO of Twitter is seriously advocating, in public, on his own medium, for a second American Civil War. One where the GOP gets “wiped out.” The man with one of the most influential platforms in human history wants all of his political opposition dead and the left to have it all. With such a jaundiced view of the world, one must wonder what this man is doing behind the scenes - when he’s not making a hyena out of himself.
Facebook is sharing our most private info among unknown legions at the company and throughout the world at large. Their staff and algorithms arbitrarily snuff business and political sites. They shun non-leftist thought, moving traffic and funds away from non-leftist entities, often shutting them down altogether. Google/YouTube employees can wake up and destroy businesses and livelihoods with a keystroke, with no legal consequence and no recourse for their target.
As it stands now, a systems admin or even a well written software package could, theoretically, throw a local, state or even national election.
Amazon became a giant largely by exploiting a tremendous tax advantage over their competition –they didn’t have to pay or collect any for years. Their new leech-model is to employ further taxpayer resources in the form of the USPS to gain unfair advantage over their brick and mortar and cyber competitors - often putting them out of business. Whether or not the post office is making or losing money on their deal with Amazon (it’s the latter) is irrelevant. The post office is not a private venture, it’s a pubic institution. There is no reason why government should engage in moral hazard by giving Amazon any advantage whatsoever over their smaller competitors. Amazon should pay what everyone else pays. Possibly more. Any private deals they’ve entered into with USPS need to be made public and discontinued altogether.
A lot can go wrong when a handful of left-wing globalist tech companies have all our most personal data. Our SS, credit card and phone numbers. Children’s names, birthdates, medical information, browsing habits, private conversations and diets. They know family trees; when loved ones are born, when they get sick, what they get sick from and when they die. They know your maiden names, your aliases, passwords, pins, secret questions, banking habits - everything. They can and do know where you go, what you do, how much you spend and what you spend it on. They get hacked and spied on. We get hacked and spied on by 3rd parties through them. If they so desired, they could effortlessly hack and spy on any one of us at any given moment.
If the Amazon tycoon is advocating a hot civil war, could he go from that to aiding or selling us out to our international enemies? That’s a risk this nation should not leave unmitigated.
Has anyone gotten the impression that Google et al are big boosters of America? We know that it’s a stridently leftist firm. They are, to a significant degree, quite beholden to China. Google has bowed to their public demands on numerous occasions. The founders are Canadian progressives. Can anyone say that the far-left internationalists at Google have any substantive patriotic bond to the country they’re headquartered in? Doesn’t seem likely. In fact, their rhetoric and actions indicate the opposite – that they’d be far more likely to sell out than *defend* America.
Is the ancient anti-trust cudgel a solution? Probably not, though it may be part of it. Free enterprise boosters loath to let that monster out, but when companies get too big, too powerful, too manipulative they become too dangerous to free enterprise. Something substantial must be done.
Perhaps Big Tech needs a small distraction – like the loss of many, many (many) billions and a few massive, highly distractive and costly investigations. Maybe a few well-placed regulations, i.e. “deal killers,” designed make it impossible for them to continue on the current Frankenstein trajectory.
Let’s see how much they *really* like big government and centralized power.
Exercise: Google “Trump, Amazon, Washington Post.” You get nothing but left-wing thought, opinion and sources. They have a near total monopoly what the vast majority of humanity uses to search for information. Near absolute power, and they’ve already begun abusing it.
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Of course I'm not anarchy anything. ANARCHO- not anarchy - and Mises was a fan. You sound like you're eating too much of your prescription.
I use Wiki occasionally, but when a piece contains complete falsehoods or manipulation of the facts, I view it as completely unreliable... because it is.
I loved that guy.
Von Muses was no such think
The term anarchy capitalist was coined by Rothbard
The anarchy’s of whatever stripe believe in the supremacy and right actions of man. No Christian can agree with that view point. That is why our founders provided for a limited government that could be corralled
The academe flight of fantasy that is anarchy capitalism can never work just as communism can never work
Normally I wouldn't mind a discussion, but you're starting it so far off (i.e. lack of subject matter knowledge) and I'm just kinda tired tonight.
Thanks.
I’ve read Rothbard
You seem inordinately unaware of what you supposed believe
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