Was discussing with a friend and wasn't sure where/how to go about this. I know big tech is currently going (or is it done) between platform or publisher. "Facebook can do what it wants because it's a private company" - to which I would argue about the "gay cake." Regardless, it then came up that allowing Facebook to do what it wants is the epitome of a capitalistic system.
Sadly, I was and am stumped as to how to respond to this.
The party that wants less government intervention (us) wants to regulate a private company? I know one of the things we want to do is and have done via .win is to circumvent that. "If this platform doesn't allow free speech, we will allow that opposing speech here."
Thoughts?
Why cant privately owned chemical plants just dump all their waste into the rivers? Oh that's right they used to do that and it was deemed too dangerous so regulations were put into place to prevent this. Your local hospital is a privately owned company, why cant they post photo's of a patients genital warts on their webpage?
A privately owned business in a free country does not really mean they can do whatever the hell they want. The real solution is to make an amendment to the constitution for the digital era.
I would suggest for a start that this new amendment would cover personal data, and speech. For example i would want each citizen to own their own data and be able to force corporations to share, edit, and delete what is stored. I would also want it to force all companies, including financial systems, to no longer be able to discriminate or deny service against citizens based on anything other than illegal activity. This does not mean you can force a private company to bake a cake, but it does mean that paypal can not deny you service because you are a republican or democrat.
For anyone that want a gay couple to force a christian cake shop to make a gay cake, you must also want a muslim restaurant to make pork chops.