Re:Big Tech's Big Defector: Roger McNamee
by closeparen on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:05PM
(#21635322)
I think you’d want it to be your own party that gets to start regulating political speech. Advocating for censorship while the opposition is in charge is a phenomenal amount of trust, to say the least.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Big Tech's Big Defector: Roger McNamee
by mindslight on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:22PM
(#21635413)
It will be - by the time the censorship is actually being implemented, the red team will be out and the blue team will have the reigns.
Generally the foundation of political support builds as sensible opposition while the other team is in power. Then that opposition team gets elected, and its politicians go to work "compromising" with the gatekeeping lobbyists - neutering any hard hitting reforms and transmuting that grassroots desire for reform into regulatory capture.