Re:Germany fines YouTube for removing video of anti-lockdown...
by codeflow2202 on Thursday July 15, 2021 @05:45AM
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Put limitations to what a private entity can do on national soil is completely in the hands of local governments. If you want to make money here, you follow our rules. Completely free capitalism brings the kind of aberrations that we can already see destroying the livelihood of millions of people in the USA
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Re:Germany fines YouTube for removing video of anti-lockdown...
by CryptoPunk on Thursday July 15, 2021 @06:09AM
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That is abuse of the monopolistic control the state exerts over the land within its jurisdiction. It would be equally abusive if the state used it to prohibit homosexual intercourse, marijuana usage or atheism-promoting speech.
>>Completely free capitalism brings the kind of aberrations that we can already see destroying the livelihood of millions of people in the USA
The idea that the US has "completely free capitalism" is the Big Lie promoted by the state's unionized activist bureaucracy. The US, along with the rest of advanced nations, has rapidly moved away from being a free society with economic liberty, toward one that has a significant amount of centralized control over the private actions of its citizens:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-long...