Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
by hypersoar on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:23PM
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The actual solution is to not allow the existence of enormously powerful mega-corporations. The problem is that we have these companies, each able to influence hundreds of millions to billions of people with virtually no accountability. Facebook and its subsidiaries comprise the most far-reaching media apparatus in history, and the whole thing is under the control of a guy. The same is largely true of Amazon. We shouldn't have let this happen.
While the government is the only entity /legally bound/ to not restrict speech, it is also untenable to have a government that cannot touch it presiding over an oligarchy of corporations that are wholly censorious. If free speech is critical to a democratic society (which it is), it is necessary that corporations do what they can to uphold it.