Should social media be nationalized?

Ah the free market. The invisible hand of which can not steer one wrong. Let us all gather round the Ayn Rand statue and give a blessing of thanks to the concept that private industry makes the best decisions always. Just ask the people of Bhopal or Love Canal...or Cardin, Oklahoma...umm



Except when it comes to social media. Then we add quotation marks to "free market" and go into a digression that capitalism works in theory it just has to have all the right conditions. Social media is apparently where Monopoly Jesus goes to die.


And that is where we stand when Laura Ingraham decided to opine on Fox News that social media needs to be nationalized to ensure that right wing idiots that scream death threats at school shooting survivors don't get their right to spread misery taken away.



https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/fox...lic-utilities/

Quote:

There's a thought that given the enormity of these corporations, and this is a public square today. This is the equivalent of what we used to see in the old town square was people with a bull horn. And so could there be a movement to treat them more like public utilities, so they have some quasi-government oversight of these entities?

Strangely such people actually don't go to their downtown to yell through bullhorns that the Sandy Hook parents need to be harassed. Instead they do that through social media. Then they get banned for doing so which then causes bloviating gas bags on Fox News to cry tears of sad.

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