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by scarface_74
1060 days ago
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> straightforward and direct solution to "this company has too much power" than breaking up the company and just making it less powerful? Or just not give the government more power and let people use their own free will to decide which websites they go to |
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The absurd part is if somebody looks at Facebook and says, "wow, they have way too much power -- I guess the only thing to do is get rid of this constitution here." It's this weirdly additive model of power where the only solution to power abuse is more power. You can't not have a gatekeeper in front of the public square, that's unthinkable -- the only thing you're allowed to do is choose a different gatekeeper to have instead and to make them as powerful as the original gatekeeper. You're not allowed to pass laws directly removing an abusive behavior, you can only empower somebody else to arbitrarily decide what is and isn't abuse.
I'm not going to debate with you about whether Facebook is large enough to be a problem that requires a regulatory response; but I suspect regardless of your views on that both you and I agree that if Facebook does have too much power, requiring age verification online and massively expanding the government's ability to perform targeted censorship is not a rational response to that problem.