tech37 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 8:04 am
a fan wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 1:49 am
And how about Tech? Last year, he was demanding on this very thread Facebook and Twitter get F'ed by the government simply because they have the gall to publish what THEY want to publish. Those bastards! They should publish what Tech wants them to publish, obviously. And if they don't? Well, Congress should FORCE them to publish what Tech wants.
Not sure what your motivation is here but I'll play along (briefly)...you may have me confused with someone else.
What I remember is, I cited work by Matt Stoller, someone who IMO, seems very smart in the antitrust area. I think I specifically mentioned the idea of repealing Section 230. Just to clarify, here is a piece he wrote back in 2021. I'm not sure this is the piece I cited at the time but it's a good example:
How To Prevent the Next Social Media-Driven Attack On Democracy—and Avoid a Big Tech Censorship Regime
https://www.economicliberties.us/our-wo ... en-attack/#
I also recall going back and forth with mdlax over this issue and we both came to the same conclusion (a rare occasion) that the issue was incredibly complicated and there were no easy answers. Don't believe I've commented since then.
I have never taken a "what TECH wants" position on anything, especially when it comes to this issue. I do disagree with people who, IMO, outright lie and/or are hypocritical.
When any business fails to deliver value to its customers, the customers seek out other providers. This is what’s occurring today with Twitter and Meta. Look at the stock prices for TWTR and FB….
They caved to the loud woke leftists, suspending and terminating whole swaths of conservatives and independent thinkers. So new entities sprung up to fill demand: Spotify, Substack, Parler, Truth Social, TikTok, Rumble, Snapchat….individually they aren’t scary (maybe TikTok) but collectively and as even more appear, they are massively denting the user statistics of the legacy social media and financial platforms, hurting their bottom lines.
It’s been equally interesting to see the defiance of certain CEO’s who refuse (so far) to cave to the woke left, especially Spotify’s Ek and Coinbase’s Armstrong. They defy the left mob’s demands even as their own stock prices have suffered. It would be a easy to cave (CEO’s generally don’t love negative comments, not to mention left activists showing up at the CEO homes) but they have defiantly issued statements saying their platforms are a political firewall and they won’t change, which of course makes the dingbat lefties go weapons-grade insane.
I’m looking for a good book to explain why the left seeks to suppress speech. I can explain it in my head, but I want a good historical book to round out the history and data.