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Originally Posted by GGG
Big tech monopoly will eventually be a problem.
Tonight, likely for the benefit of the world, they banned trump from Twitter. Most of the time big tech does not act this way and they have an obligation to look out only for the best interests of their shareholders. But a private company just silenced the president of the United States on the biggest platform for rapidly disseminating information.
That is quite a lot of power to put in the hands of Jack Dosey.
Hopefully they are broken up standard oil style.
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These things will govern themselves in the long run. If one platform gets too restrictive (or isn't restrictive enough), people will go to another platform. If the market is there, it will do well.
It's really no different than other forms of media. TV networks have restrictions on content. You can't go the Cooking Network and try to promote weird conspiracy theories about elections. You can go on FOX News and do it, and apparently there is a market for it. Any website should be free to filter any kind of content they want to distribute, just like TV, radio, print media, etc... Like the other forms of media, if there are various audiences that want their own thing, it will materialize at some point.
For a long time, the World Weekly News was one of the biggest selling publications, but that doesn't mean the New York Times or Boston Herald are biased or harming freedom if they don't let them run stories about the Bat Boy in their papers.