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A little too corporate friendly here.
Not that I oppose the idea, but also, Big Tech wants a kind of narrower censorship... so they can be the defacto gatekeepers, and no one else.
Government has to be the wall between corporations and the general mass populace. The general population just does not have the media literacy or means to effectively combat corporations influence on everything in society. Something needs to be that barrier.
Corporatuons must have legal limits to their size in people, capitalization, revenue, etc.
If we allow limitless growth then there won't be a wall thick enough to hide us from all the bullshit.
Billionaires should not exist, and corporations must have strict limits too.
Having one corporation buy out every other one and get into every type of business is way too much power. Look at how things work in S. Korea where the president has to kiss the feet of the CEO of Samsung. Because Samsung is way too big and does way too many things. Corps like that are just begging to be split up.
Yeah absolutely. This is something I can get behind.
I mean, I think there should be a medium. Governments don't need that power either.
In other words, I think this movement should be placing more blame on corporate lobbying and monopolies, too. But not let up on the censorship efforts from govts.
I can't think a non-bias medium guardrail system hasn't eventually fallen under Government control. Government has just as much of a need to protect their interests from external sources as anyone else. It really is a National Security Issue for every Nation, not just EuroAmericana.
And then we barrel towards regulatory capture, as the very biggest corporations can just lobby to their benefit.
The page touches on this:
So I think govt should go after the most manipulative corporate offenders, but not create a situation where they can have so much control over individuals. In other words, no one should have that kind of manipulative power, and its the govt's role to break it up wherever it pops up, not take control of it.
I mean, some entity has to control it.
Even if we reign in Corporations, there's still external governments trying to stir trouble and influence the popular opinion. We can't realistically stop them from doing this, but have to defend against it. So some entity has to be in charge of that.
I think you're right though, we have to reign in Corporations first. If each Nation cannot do that, then there's not much difference between Government and Corporate Interests. This is a problem that isn't going to go away even after we fix it either - something we'll have to figure out as a society how to handle.