PSA: Democracy dies in the dark

Putting all of the obvious failings of the media and the oligopoly of social media in one thread.

Today's entry: Kamala Harris' former press secretary is the person at Twitter who announced the removal of a Trump ad this past week.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/kamala...ations-officer


These social media giants are just like the railroads of the past, with unfettered power to manipulate message just as the rails could manipulate the delivery of product to markets.

It's the equivalent of privatizing this nations roads and letting Google/Facebook/Twitter decide what businesses or political groups can have access to that road. Their private nature is irrelevant, just as it was for the railroad oligopoly, as the distortion of the free market is so great it requires action to preserve the rights of those in the market.

And this from a Libertarian who scored 91.7% in that other thread. But when externalities or economies of scale force the market to no longer be free, then government exists to insure the playing field is re-leveled. That and national defense are its only two essential roles, and what we are seeing now is a limitation of expression and speech that is even more dire than the economic inequality of the railroads.