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Re:You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Sect... by dragonwriter on Saturday January 09, 2021 @03:05AM (#25698553)
> Today we had 4 tech billionaires/CEOs telling us what politicians we’re allowed to hear from or talk about.

Nope, they are telling you who is allowed on their platform.

You can hear from or talk about whoever you want.

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Re:You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Sect... by dragonwriter on Saturday January 09, 2021 @04:39AM (#25698957)
> Let me guess, you’re the type of person who will complain incessantly about the Koch brothers and money in politics and super PACs...

Well, no, not the way you mean.

That is, I think all those things are corrosive within the structure of the present US political system; OTOH, I also think that the ways people propose to constrain them tend to both have side effects as bad or worse than the problems they solve, and violate the First Amendment.

> and yet here you are gleeful about giving tech oligarchs the effective power to choose the next President.

I disagree that that is the result, and I'm not at all gleeful.

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