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2025-05-17 03:29:59
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"Why do we need common carrier laws? Over-reliance on the Bell system is the REAL issue."
Platforms that are so large as to influence public discourse and indeed support/opposition for literally any policy position, by not being regulated, are incentivized to keep it this way. They could even muscle out competition by burning money that came from, ohidunno, people paying them to bolster/suppress a given viewpoint.
This is the same virgin autist argument you hear every time someone complains about something Windows is doing. Okay, sure, yes, in a perfect world, we'd all be using Linux. Now down here in Realityland, people use what the computer comes with.