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by freemrkt8 1329 days ago
You think he’s wrong about how great government control would be, but the government is in control.
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such12 1329 days ago
Don’t be silly. The government doesn’t regulate how these services operate.

If you are going to argue that macroeconomic policy means ‘control’, then the government ‘controls’ everything in everyone’s lives at all times. You are welcome to believe this if you like.

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freemrkt8 1329 days ago
The government regulates their existence, their ability to grow, hire, develop services.

Section 230 regulates what is allowed. DMCA, etc etc

You say I should not be silly but I can believe what I like. Which is it? You are not really selling a strong argument here, just wishy washy opinions decoupled from the negotiated terms of society documented openly.

Society, the rest of us, do not have an obligation to your head canon.

With the money printer off, tech corp are going where the money is; government welfare, not a free market: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/story/google-and-...

The government does not “own assets” on paper but it has a whole lot of influence over agency

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such12 1329 days ago
> You say I should not be silly but I can believe what I like. Which is it?

They aren’t mutually exclusive.

> The government does not “own assets” on paper but it has a whole lot of influence over agency

Feel free to believe that your agency is under government control.

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