Posted on 06/16/2020 9:50:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
Libertarians.
They’re the tools of Mr. Burnses of the world.
The problem is, these companies would not have gotten so large without government preferences. Government restrictions are an attempt to undo government mistakes - but rather than heavy-handed anti-trust breakups, companies like Facebook and Twitter simply need to lose their preferences.
I despise Amazon’s politics but they do run a good mail order store
and there are many competitors so i believe they should not be broken up
but AssBook and Twit and especially GooGoo all have very little effective competition in their main core lines of trade ......and should definitely be split up per our nation’s antittust laws, imho
No kidding.
And Stossel has always been the poster boy for liberaltarianism.
So much for having confidence we can win on the battlefield of ideas.
“It’s the oddest thing. The more America’s Big Tech companies such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter have contributed to keeping America’s economy afloat during the coronavirus lockdown, the louder the voices get to break them up or to tie them up into regulatory knots.”
How much did these companies contribute to making the lockdown happen via advocacy and propaganda in order to gain market share?
Amazon, for example, runs the Washington Post.
This influential newspaper advocating for the close of businesses and lockdown in turn brings greater market share to Amazon by closing down its physical store competitors and making people ordered to stay at home more dependent on Amazon.
How many people may have bought from Amazon for the first time ever because they had to?
The great Libertard Gorsuch just made it easier for Big Biz to manage their diversity policies at great expense to traditional religions.
Google, Amazon, Apple, etc. are making it increasingly difficult for conservatives and religious folks to express their ideas in the so-called "open marketplace of ideas". Gorsuch just made traditional religion illegal.
So where do we all go? The catacombs?
The “battlefield of ideas” is a minefield where the mines only go off when conservatives step on them.
The "free Market" is such a brave new thing!
Big Tech. Making India Great Again and pissing on the American worker for 30 years.
Split them all up and shut then down.
“President Donald Trump has threatened to regulate social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook “strongly.” Some in Congress want an investigation into Google’s search engine algorithms to make sure they aren’t discriminating against conservative websites.”
Are any of these companies on the stock exchange or have taken government money for anything? If so, this would make a great class action suit that could easily show their censorship of conservative thought.
So change the battlefield.
It isn't the government that set it up that way, it's the culture.
Turning to the government to fix it is a fools errand.
Take away the h-1B visa cookie jar.
Bust the lefty big tech trusts—they have turned into racist anti-white institutions, vicious censors—and they are the ones who need to be canceled.
Yes.
Transhumanism.
Sure. Probably all of them.
If so, this would make a great class action suit that could easily show their censorship of conservative thought.
I'm not sure what you're saying. If you mean these companies lose their 1st Amendment rights when they sell stock or contract with the government you probably want to rethink that.
Amazon, Google, Twitter, and other Big Tech companies often engage in anti-competitive and abusive practices that subvert the free market and damage the country. Unfortunately, many conservatives are so committed to laissez-faire that they are willing to accept such ills as somehow conducive to business and economic growth.
“The more America’s Big Tech companies such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter have contributed to keeping America’s economy afloat during the coronavirus lockdown, the louder the voices get to break them up or to tie them up into regulatory knots.”
Counter point: the bigger those companies get, the more they erroneously believe they are entitled to or have rights to restrict what people think say see or know.
Well, while I’m generally sympathetic to this kind of argument, these companies have a virtual monopoly over the flow of information. That cannot be allowed.
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