"Is that why Parler is shut down and Gab has so many problems?"
Yes, it is. Not because government regulates the supporting businesses. I already said in my first comment, the government regulates money. They have "know your customer" laws and ant money laundering laws. Both of these cost money, and aren't cheap to be compliant with. These regulations keep out competition. If it weren't for government regulation, anybody could set up a payment processor in their garage (Like Cryptocurrency is going to allow you to be able to do), which would then help to secure funding for places like Gab.
Amazon as a business takes HUGE advantage of government tax havens and government subsidies. They set up shop where the taxes are low, and then the people who DO pay the taxes are paying for their own destruction by paying for the post office, that Amazon is using to help put them out of business. The government is literally forcing small business at gun point to find their own destruction. (Amazon is who knocked Parler off of their AWS servers).
"The reason ConEd hasn't turned off the lights to Trump tower is because of Utility Regulation that prevents them from doing so."
Unless they have too many people gathering due to COVID, then they're happy to shut your power off.
"The reason Amazon cut off Parler and encouraged lesser providers to also cut off Parler is because Servers aren't considered a Utility, when they should be."
This will only make the problem worse. The opposite is what needs to happen. Remove barriers of constructing competing companies. How much red tape exists in order to build out the infrastructure for giant internet companies? A LOT.
"Again, I was a card carrying member of the Libertarian Party and my first votes were for Harry Browne. I was even a student member of CATO. I know the arguments, and my opinion is that they are no longer convincing."
Unfortunately, Libertarians are closer to communism than any of them would like to admit, which is why I'm an anarcho capitalist. There shouldn't be a government at all. As soon as you assign a monopoly on the use of force, then that power becomes corrupted. We've seen it happen a thousand times in human history. This is nothing new that we're experiencing now.
"Yes, industry uses government to get anti-competitive regulations against new entrants. ULA is lobbying heavily to get NASA to only use purchased rockets and not use bids for the Artemis Program. It's a problem. But it's not what happened here."
Yes it is. Section 230 grants all social media total control over their platforms with no accountability. The fact that corporations exist at all is a legal shield of liability for them. Before the existence of corporations, you used to be able to go after the business owner personally and seize their personal assets, say if a bank collapsed. There's no REAL consequences for wrongdoing. It IS what's happening here, because there would be a LOT more competition in the space if it weren't for government regulation keeping small players out.
"But why did people want to regulate railroads and banks in the first place?"
Because they're too brainwashed by the government indoctrination camps (Pubic school) to realize that government controls both already. The government subsidized the creation of the railroads that led to "monopoly" control in the first place. The government regulates the currency which led to monopoly control of banks in the first place. The government is the problem, not the solution.
Ask yourself the question “what are the barriers to entry?” In any given space that prevents a small start up from competing with the big colluding players? 100% of the time the answer is government regulation
I lost my bitcoin wallet :(
can you ELI5 that for me?
Q is Astrology. Word things vaguely enough and they could apply to anybody in a wide ranges of scenarios.
I see where you're coming from, and I actually completely agree with it to a degree. I'm actually not a Libertarian. I'm the extreme version of the ideology known as an Anarcho Capitalist. I don't believe there should be a state at all for a company to threaten the function of. Without a government, no company could usurp its authority like we are seeing happen in front of us right now.
The true heart of that problem runs FAR deeper. To say that "Twitter needs to be regulated" isn't looking at the heart of the problem of government regulations. Government regulations are the CAUSE of the problem, not the solution to them. How is Amazon the largest retailer in the world? 2 reasons. 1) They locate in areas with low taxes. 2) The utilize tax payer subsidized delivery services. Eliminating the post office, and removing expensive local taxes that make it hard for local businesses to compete with amazon would go farther to bring competition to the scene than any regulation you could do on Twitter. Removing financial regulations would bring more competition into the fold for payment processors than the relatively few we have now, where if PayPal or Gofundme, or whoever decides they don't want to allow payments to Parler (Or Gab) anymore then they don't have to. Well that circumstance wouldn't exist in a world where anybody in their garage could set up a payment processor. But today the government would shut you down for not being KYC compliant, or abiding by AML laws to prevent you from counterfeiting the currency (Only the government can debase the currency, not plebs!).
The problems go FAR deeper than "Regulate twitter".
It's a total caricature of right wing philosophy
Libertarian is about freedom of association. Gab is a private platform, that can have whatever it wants on its platform.
Probably about his successful immigration policies. It's Alamo Texas which is a a city on the border with Mexico. He's NOT giving a speech at the Alamo fort.
Did my Dad write this?
Far side is not a boomer meme!
why not impeach him too?
I'm trying to make it as an independent musician. Thinking of putting it up on Gab instead
Your weakness is showing.
Oh one more thing!
I LOVE GAB!!!
How can CP continue to be hosted on Tor networks but we can’t figure out some wrongthink forums? There’s a way!
Gab has been doing it the right way for YEARS. Should have been with them a year ago.
100% Do not let anybody tell you that what they are doing is a reaction. They would do it anyways, perhaps using a different excuse.
I can’t fucking wait to see what arises from this.
Are you talking about Bitcoin or USD?
Everybody start buying bitcoin.
I'm currently using google cloud for offsite storage backups. I pay 10$ a month for 2TB. Can anybody recommend me a good alternative that's a user friendly as google drive?
I feel like you may be missing my point. Every example you have a bullet point next to doesn't have competition, because government regulates them. While government didn't kick Alex Jones off of youtube, google benefits greatly from government regulation, and government contracts.