intent matters and generally these situations should be left to be solved by the individuals persons

there is a level at which these companies get too big and do require some govt intervention

the trick is determining at what point

intent cannot be proven

Drawing lines is good

if its a small business they should have maximum leeway to discriminate

cause people commit the same action with various different intentions

No. The government should not interfere. The free market will win out eventually. Competition is the answer.

no

anarco market?

no there needs to be some regulation

The gubment should interfere to allow health market competition

i love my boy ben "dont sue the jew" shapiro but the free market is not a clean and pure entitiy. people can and will always take advantage of it

Some, yes. Not always, and Not in this instance.

I'm very free market capitalist but there needs to be moral and legal component of the market

and before anyone counters 'intent cannot be proven' i will remind you of what a judge I once dated told me to my distain, "Since when is the court concerned about the TRUTH? it's about doubt..."

The free market decided it wasn't all it's cranked up to be and diversified.

the court IS about doubt, though i do doubt the part of the story saying you dated someone <:smugon:512048583806025739>

lol

if we need to wait until they're big enough to warrant government action, what size would warrant that? they're already at 1 trillion dollars market cap

the biggest corporation of all time, no action

gov should never act

and how long would we wait for the gears of government to turn?

why not just mandate that platforms are platforms

gov should dampen actions of others

stay off my lawn

To be fair google and other social media sites are far different from a small waxing company in Commie B.C

when a corporation is proven to clearly affect the vast majority of a population and they knowingly use that influence for their own political gains

we're in danger of the wheels of government turning so slowly that google/fb/etc have so rapidly gained the power to manipulate the vote in their favour that they will never risk being regulated

gov has ALWAYS been this slow

slow is a GOOD thing

If it was fast it'd be communist in 2012

second the govt should force them to designate between platform and publisher in that if they wish to curtail speech they must be a publisher and be liable for all content on their sites

it allows people to explore the issue rather than having to break the law to do so

yes, but corporations have NEVER had this much power to manipulate the popoulace before. and they're doing it faster than the government can regulate it

The free market would be fine if people stopped fucking with it.
The social media situation is a short term problem. Google is being a dick *now* and that pisses us all off. I get it.
Eventually a competitor will arise to replace YouTube and everything will be fine. If we use the government to interfere, it reinforces YouTube’s position as a market leader. Then we’re *stuck* with YouTube, and no matter how much regulation we put on YouTube, they don’t *want* to be fair. So they never will be.
All you’ll do is turn a short term problem into a long term problem.

Imagine if it only took a day for a law to pass.

i agree with scale

We don't know what they are up too

facebook and google are the lesser evil

eventually the m arket will displace them