[pineaux]

Nobody banned the sale of these books. The only argument any of the people who are crying their eyes out could make here is: we need open source decentralized bookselling to ensure that people who don't care about the bad feelings people have about these books can still buy these books. Every other argument is just weak and quite frankly, herdmentality of the right wing political sphere.

[LocalH]

What are you talking about? eBay banned the sale of these books.

[pineaux]

They banned the sale of these books at other places?

[morlockabove]

When there's one company (due to network effects) that does something, that company's a de facto arm of government for that thing.

So yes, we do need distributed everything.

[pineaux]

So. You think all the companies in the world are defacto arms of the government? I don't get what you are saying

[morlockabove]

Monopolies are de-facto government bodies. It isn't that Ebay is administered by USG (although I'm sure Ebay has an NSA/DHS detachment); it's that it makes no difference to the user whether a government bans the sale of books on online flea markets or the only practical online flea market does.

If the only store within a 2-hour drive is walmart, walmart is your equivalent of the soviet centrally-planned economy.