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Thanks for the link to the article. A few good reads in the
linked docs and rather interesting/informative with regard to
TBL’s thoughts, and yours. That being said, Solon’s
bias/subjectivity/slant was rather apparent so that might be why
some readers here were left with a bad aftertaste if they didn’t
dig deeper. I agree this thread would be more productive without
the debates.
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Secretariat415:
Regulation destroys free markets in 4 distinct phases:
While I do agree in principle and support a free market, the
thing is, laws and regulations are currently not passed in a
vacuum. While I personally am against “all kinds of regulation”
on a general level, I still see e.g. regulating to guarantee net
neutrality as a good thing. This is because there already
are laws in place that give existing companies too much
power over society. The free market has already been destroyed.
This is a global problem, so I’m not talking about the US
specifically. If no monopolies existed, the situation would be
different. But since we already have laws that guarantee strong
positions for internet access providers, it makes sense to regulate
what these companies are allowed to do. At least for as long as the
laws guaranteeing their positions are in place.
Being categorically against all regulation doesn’t make sense
if one at the same time wants to keep already existing laws and
regulations in place. That would just mean one supports the status
quo and opposes change, which, by the way, is what the word
“conservative” usually means.
On a lighter note, I would like to quote a song by Dob
Dylan.
Now, I’m liberal, but to a degree
I want everybody to be free
But if you think that I’ll let Barry Goldwater
Move in next door and marry my daughter
You must think I’m crazy!
I wouldn’t let him do it for all the farms in Cuba
Bob Dylan
(From "I shall be free No. 10)
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I don’t think we need this debate on free market ideology.
We’ve had it before, several times. By all means debate it, and
link to that from here, but we don’t need yet another topic for
it IMO.
I suggest instead we use this topic to looking into what Tim is
talking about specify wrt regulation, or specific proposals being
made to regulate Google et al, maybe even GDPR (though I think that
deserves is own topic) but debating ‘free markets’ belongs
elsewhere really. Its more ideology that debate.
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Thanks for the link to the article. A few good reads in the
linked docs and rather interesting/informative with regard to TBL’s
thoughts, and yours. That being said, Solon’s
bias/subjectivity/slant was rather apparent so that might be why
some readers here were left with a bad aftertaste if they didn’t
dig deeper. I agree this thread would be more productive without
the debates.
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