""Well, if they won't rent you an office, just buy up a multi-million property, learn how to build a 10-story steel and glass building, do the riveting yourself, etc. and if the office supply company cuts you off, just buy forestry rights and start your own paper mill so you can have copy paper. If Men's Warehouse bans you, get a sewing machine and learn to sew your own suit jacket."
At some point, this assertion becomes ridiculous. Society is advanced because of specialization."
Yes, it is ridiculous because it's a straw man. My point isn't that you do it all yourself, but that there would be no barriers to competing firms providing the same service. I'm not saying you can make your own jacket, and if anything is a perfect example of MY argument, not yours, because there's zero regulation to purchasing jackets. So let's say hypothetically speaking, Mens warehouse bans you from buying jackets. So, you just send your friend Bob in to buy one for you. Problem solved. But with PayPal, if you ask your friend Bob to run up a payment processing server, the FBI is going to bust down his door for being an unlicensed money transmitter.
That's not a straw man, we've already seen it happen.
At first, companies were told "Build your own website"
Then the processors, plural, refused to do business with them:
"make your own processor"
And Gab did. Then the servers farms refused to take their money:
"buy your own server"
so it already happened. Forced to develop in-house what Libertarian Theory insists they should be able to buy on the market. The Market refused them. Not Government. The Market. And it's refusing Parler.
Eventually, it'll be "build your own building" because nobody will lease you commercial space. I guarantee at some point Amazon or Google or Apple will say: "If you lease Acme Startup commercial space, we'll stop doing business with your firm."
It's not just happening to startup companies, but people. It started with Alex getting banned from youtube and ended up with him being "cancelled" by banks, payment processors, etc. etc.
Laura Loomer was banned from Uber or Lyft (I forget which). Somebody posted a huge list of people including Milo Y. and a US Veteran, who were cancelled by banks and server farms and payment processors.
It's ridiculous. Even the Market is being subverted by the Radical Left.
Every single thing you've mentioned is subject to government regulations. What are the startup costs for an ISP? Let's say I wanted to start my own. Do I need a license to operate it? Do I need permits before I make land purchases and start laying down infrastructure in order to provide voluntary competitive internet services? What kinds of red tape and monitoring do I need to do per federal regulations?
""Well, if they won't rent you an office, just buy up a multi-million property, learn how to build a 10-story steel and glass building, do the riveting yourself, etc. and if the office supply company cuts you off, just buy forestry rights and start your own paper mill so you can have copy paper. If Men's Warehouse bans you, get a sewing machine and learn to sew your own suit jacket."
At some point, this assertion becomes ridiculous. Society is advanced because of specialization."
Yes, it is ridiculous because it's a straw man. My point isn't that you do it all yourself, but that there would be no barriers to competing firms providing the same service. I'm not saying you can make your own jacket, and if anything is a perfect example of MY argument, not yours, because there's zero regulation to purchasing jackets. So let's say hypothetically speaking, Mens warehouse bans you from buying jackets. So, you just send your friend Bob in to buy one for you. Problem solved. But with PayPal, if you ask your friend Bob to run up a payment processing server, the FBI is going to bust down his door for being an unlicensed money transmitter.
That's not a straw man, we've already seen it happen.
At first, companies were told "Build your own website" Then the processors, plural, refused to do business with them: "make your own processor" And Gab did. Then the servers farms refused to take their money: "buy your own server"
so it already happened. Forced to develop in-house what Libertarian Theory insists they should be able to buy on the market. The Market refused them. Not Government. The Market. And it's refusing Parler.
Eventually, it'll be "build your own building" because nobody will lease you commercial space. I guarantee at some point Amazon or Google or Apple will say: "If you lease Acme Startup commercial space, we'll stop doing business with your firm."
It's not just happening to startup companies, but people. It started with Alex getting banned from youtube and ended up with him being "cancelled" by banks, payment processors, etc. etc.
Laura Loomer was banned from Uber or Lyft (I forget which). Somebody posted a huge list of people including Milo Y. and a US Veteran, who were cancelled by banks and server farms and payment processors.
It's ridiculous. Even the Market is being subverted by the Radical Left.
Every single thing you've mentioned is subject to government regulations. What are the startup costs for an ISP? Let's say I wanted to start my own. Do I need a license to operate it? Do I need permits before I make land purchases and start laying down infrastructure in order to provide voluntary competitive internet services? What kinds of red tape and monitoring do I need to do per federal regulations?
True or false: Parler is down because companies are refusing to do business with it. Not because a judge or sheriff or politician ordered them not to.
If you can't admit that, there's little point in continuing.
True or False:
If I try and make my own currency backed by gold, the government will throw my ass in jail. Not Bank of America, or Chase.
If you can't admit that, there's little point in continuing.