But we are in the real world of government involved capitalism where government regulations pervade the business and private worlds. So changing those regulations, and using the existing structures is vital to short term progress.
When we have the liberal government colluding with private businesses, and some of those businesses colluding among themselves for political reasons, your solutions are not practical.
Will you really be so eager to stick to your "keep government out" plan if you find yourself unable to open a bank account, or unable to use Paypal? And then you say, OK, I'll open a new kind of bank. But you can't, because you find a set of regulations limiting what you can do, and then you find you can't offer credit or debit cards either since the various companies involved in that won't do business with you. Oh, and you can't just decide to make a new kind of money either. So how does your plan work?
and you can’t just decide to make a new kind of money either. _________________________
But FB _can_ make a new kind of money. So why can one *private company* create a crypto currency that will obviously give them even more control as a *private company*, but conservatives cannot?
A note on the takedown of the Verital video: I believe they are claiming that a hidden camera is deceptive.
Who would want to trust the GOVERNMENT - you know, the same people who bring your the DMV and the EPA and every other error-prone public sector operation - to get THIS right?
...is "consistent with theoretical libertarian principles, and perhaps in a future utopia that approach would work and solve all issues of discrimination."?!??
The pro-state intervention crowd is betting the WHOLE FARM on the government - the Justice Dept to be precise - to properly and ethically and logically adjudicate the FB, Vimeo, Google etc saga. Indeed, you say so explicitly when you say we have a
"liberal government colluding with private businesses, and some of those businesses colluding among themselves for political reasons".
Your solution? To live ...
..in the real world of government involved capitalism where government regulations pervade the business and private worlds. So changing those regulations, and using the existing structures is vital to short term progress.
So, WHO pray tell, will change "those regulations" within the context of the "existing structures"? Nancy Pelosi? AOC? Even when the Republicans were in charge of the House...would Paul Ryan have gotten it done?
But putting that aside, after you put forward a dystopia , you ask:
So how does your plan work?
I already answered your query, but one more time: STOP USING FB, GOOGLE, AMAZON, TWITTER, ET AL. If 63 million Trump voters did that and switched to competitor platforms and service-providers, those big tech firms would lose their minds.
I empathize with your disdain for pie-in-the-sky dreamers when it comes to the real world, who are living in a future utopia where a benevolent government works and solves all issues of discrimination. But the government isn't going to fix this problem. What is mind-boggling is why conservatives continue to feed the beast. As soon as someone can answer why any Trump voter is using big tech, then we can have a good conversation.