Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network

Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network by zpeti on Friday March 10, 2023 @08:20AM (#35093990)

Exactly, and its actually generally blue states that have centralised education, and places like florida that allow chartered schools and similar ones.

So if you want to setup a private school in florida with LGBTQ+ education, I'm pretty sure you can just do that.

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Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network by matthewdgreen on Friday March 10, 2023 @08:33AM (#35094123)

Not if you want to receive school voucher funds.

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Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network by zpeti on Friday March 10, 2023 @08:40AM (#35094179)

OK, and? It's still a free market. If people want schools with LGBTQ+ education, set one up, and do it. You can.

Why should local government help? Especially if that local government was specifically elected to not support issues like this?

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Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network by matthewdgreen on Friday March 10, 2023 @09:37AM (#35094765)

Because local government has the power to collect taxes. If it chooses to selectively hand them out only to favored political institutions, then in practice this means many students won't be able to afford to attend their favored schools, and some schools will be financially non-viable. It may be the case that such schools will still exist in this environment (with a smaller student body), but that doesn't make the issue less problematic.

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Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network by shagmin on Friday March 10, 2023 @09:38AM (#35094779)

Are you talking about a hypothetical place where schools are self-funded or something, or are you talking about Florida still? It's not that much of a free market if conservative-friendly charter schools get subsidized by the state but LGBTQ friendly schools don't.

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