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
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