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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by eeZah7Ux on Monday May 18, 2020 @12:20PM (#23224452)
> a single private company having a near-monopoly on various public communication channels > The Founding Fathers could not have predicted this.

Financial, political, religious entities controlling newspapers and book publishers is a problem known (and well documented) across thousands of years.

Same for near-monopolies of means of transportation, materials, water, and other.

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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by acituan on Monday May 18, 2020 @12:34PM (#23224650)
None of those combined instantaneous planet-wide distribution of spoken word, produced by anyone, shoveled to everyone, individually based on what they would be most likely to want to hear.

If founding fathers had netflix this wouldn’t even make to a black mirror episode of their time.

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