[ExI] Section 230 and Antitrust

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Sat Jan 16 21:52:36 UTC 2021


The companies do not appear to have collaborated on this.  Rather, they
independently reacted to the same thing, that was itself not coordinated
with them.

That is all they need to avoid breaking the antitrust regulations.

On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 1:24 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> As many of the long time list members know, I am a very vocal opponent
> of racism and intolerance. I truly do believe that genetic and
> cultural diversity is a very important hedge against extinction and
> gives tremendous competitive advantages to diverse open societies. But
> I am also a huge proponent of the U.S. Constitution and the principles
> of individual liberty on which it was founded. That is why I have to
> weigh in on the events of the past two weeks.
>
> While I decry the storming of Capitol by Q-Anon and alt-right
> extremists in an attempted coup, and I support the investigation and
> arrest of those who were responsible, I am very much against the
> unilateral attack on free speech by big tech. I was horrified to learn
> that 3 rich guys could decide to almost instantaneously destroy a
> promising young social media startup with over 30 employees and 10
> million users at the touch of a button.
>
> I was reminded of Obi Wan's line from Star Wars regarding the
> destruction of Alderaan by the Death Star: "I felt a great disturbance
> in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror
> and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
> It should terrorize anybody who has ever felt the slightest stir of
> the American Dream to grow a small business into a successful company,
> that Amazon could pull the plug on a small business so easily.
>
> So why are not the Feds investigating this? Is that not collusion by a
> cartel to monopolize an entire sector of a market that SHOULD be free?
> By the letter of the law of Section 230 of the Communications Decency
> Act, Parler did nothing wrong and cannot be held liable for the
> content generated by its users. Who gave a small cadre of billionaires
> the right to decide what constitutes acceptable speech on their own
> platforms AND everyone else's?
>
> Stuart LaForge
>
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