Yeah been hearing that for years. Republicans are very slow on tech issues which is why we're in this situation in the first place. They seem to have no clue how powerful big tech is and that they essentially have control over modern public speech. Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
Its not about being slow on tech issues. It's about laizzez faire economics and ayn rand being the intellectual foundation of the contemporary republican party. Paul Ryan was the biggest ayn rand fan in congress, he even once had to give a speech denying he liked ayn rand more than jesus. And then Paul Ryan blocks the wall as speaker of the house. There is a connection. The Koch Brothers are also big laizzez faire idiots.
It's both really. So many boomer Republicans that run the party have no clue what's going on in the tech world. I think even a lot of the laisses faire Repubs would capitulate if they had an understanding of big tech and the censorship issues that will only get worse on the current path.
I was pretty laisses faire until Gab. That proved to me that the only way to have a "free" market would be to set up a separate market from the ground up... perhaps all the way down to currency/government.
I was too when I was young, but as I read a lot about the dangers of poorly regulated or unregulated monopolies, duopolies, oligopolies, oligarchies, concentrated power, concentrated wealth, centralization etc etc. I became a very big proponent of regulation that protects peoples rights and their pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.
a "free" market would be to set up a separate market from the ground up... perhaps all the way down to currency/government.
even then without proper regulation captured markets and monopolies can and often will form which then allows for abusive control over people, price fixing, price gouging, collusion, insider trading etc etc
Yeah been hearing that for years. Republicans are very slow on tech issues which is why we're in this situation in the first place. They seem to have no clue how powerful big tech is and that they essentially have control over modern public speech. Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
Its not about being slow on tech issues. It's about laizzez faire economics and ayn rand being the intellectual foundation of the contemporary republican party. Paul Ryan was the biggest ayn rand fan in congress, he even once had to give a speech denying he liked ayn rand more than jesus. And then Paul Ryan blocks the wall as speaker of the house. There is a connection. The Koch Brothers are also big laizzez faire idiots.
It's both really. So many boomer Republicans that run the party have no clue what's going on in the tech world. I think even a lot of the laisses faire Repubs would capitulate if they had an understanding of big tech and the censorship issues that will only get worse on the current path.
I was pretty laisses faire until Gab. That proved to me that the only way to have a "free" market would be to set up a separate market from the ground up... perhaps all the way down to currency/government.
I was too when I was young, but as I read a lot about the dangers of poorly regulated or unregulated monopolies, duopolies, oligopolies, oligarchies, concentrated power, concentrated wealth, centralization etc etc. I became a very big proponent of regulation that protects peoples rights and their pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.
even then without proper regulation captured markets and monopolies can and often will form which then allows for abusive control over people, price fixing, price gouging, collusion, insider trading etc etc