Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
by atourgates on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:50AM
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In those cases the solution isn’t to force those companies to moderate their content differently, but to prevent them from becoming de-facto monopolies.
The popularity of Twitter, Facebook, Amazon and Google’s core products isn’t the issue. The issue is that any time a successful competitor comes up, they can just buy them out.
Imagine if Facebook wasn’t able to buy Instagram, and it had survived as a competing platform?
There’s no need to apply the concept of “free speech” to private companies. There is every need to regulate monopolies so that a handful of tech giants don’t have the power to effectively suppress content across the majority of the outlets people are using every day.
The popularity of Twitter, Facebook, Amazon and Google’s core products isn’t the issue. The issue is that any time a successful competitor comes up, they can just buy them out.
Imagine if Facebook wasn’t able to buy Instagram, and it had survived as a competing platform?
There’s no need to apply the concept of “free speech” to private companies. There is every need to regulate monopolies so that a handful of tech giants don’t have the power to effectively suppress content across the majority of the outlets people are using every day.