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morlockabove
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Section 230
morlockabove
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
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.
morlockabove
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
But it should be, given it's a monopoly on the space.
morlockabove
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
The r-word is potentially triggering. Stop.
morlockabove
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
They're a publically traded monopoly marketplace with special legal protection from being sued. I would be fine with them being forced to act like what they pretend to be- a commons, a market.

The freedom of a giant, monopolistic company is not aligned with the freedom of humans.

We already have precedents for conpanies being forced to impartiality- utilities. Ebay's a utility, the modern large-scale version of the ground a flea market sits on.
morlockabove
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Law of the jungle; you get someone fired from their job, get their health insurance taken away, your life is forfeit. It's worse than SWATting.

This is going to lead to reverse-dox revenge killings.
morlockabove
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
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.