He’s absolutely right
If you are not familiar with what should have been one of the biggest October Surprises in history, the New York Post broke a story with emails from a laptop owned by Hunter Biden that he abandoned at a computer repair company, that showed proof that Joe Biden was aware of and complicit in Hunder Biden’s pay-for-play schemes to profit off his dad’s position as VP. The laptop also contained at least one sex tape of Hunter Biden banging a hooker and smoking crack.
Facebook and Twitter axed this story. They banned anyone who shared the link, including the Press Secretary herself.
Today was the day that the libertarians lost the debate on regulating big tech
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) October 14, 2020
This is 100% accurate. In the early days of the internet, a hands-off, low regulation approach allowed the internet to flourish.
But that lack of regulation now has led to the creation of monopolies with an ideological bend that is now more stifling than anything the government could have come up with.
If the Government had started banning anyone who shared a link to a news article, a Judge would have gotten an injunction against that on First Amendment grounds by lunch. It would have been that cut-and-dry a case. But because two private websites that host two-thirds of real-time internet communication between them are doing it, it’s a little harder.
I believe in the free market until it stops being a free market, which clearly the internet has become in some circles (social media).
Libertarians have essentially become economic anarchists, where any regulation is bad because it is regulation.
This is where the Libertarians become the enemy of liberty and alienate limited government Conservatives.
Us: “You mean you are fine with three companies that host almost all real-time internet communication and the majority of internet searches burry a major story about the corruption of a politician they agree with?”
Libertarians: “They are private sector so the First Amendment doesn’t apply to them, stop trying to regulate business, you Fascist.”