On 1/16/2021 4:11 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 10:00 PM spudboy100 via Everything List
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/> For me, all I need to see is which companies are doing the
censoring?/
To censor someone you need the power to imprison or kill them if they
say something you don't like, so no company is doing any censoring,
some of them may want to but none of them are able to because only
governments have enough power to do that. I'm not saying companies
don't have any power at all because they do, and sometimes they use
the power they do have unwisely, and that's a problem, but the
solution is not to give even more power to the government because it
already has quite enough power thank you. So what is the solution? I
don't know, there may not be one, there is not always a solution to
every problem and that's why we live in an imperfect worldand probably
always will, but we should try to make the imperfections as small as
possible. And if history has taught us anything it's that giving even
more power to the government, which is already the most powerful
institution in our society, will not make the world perfect.
Except it's not clear that the government is the most powerful
institution. On paper, the legislature has the most power, but in
practice division and polarization have left it ineffective, with a
consequence that it just delegates power with no oversight or control.
And there are problems, like global warming that require international
solutions. That implies that governments need the power to make the
necessary agreements and to live up to them.
Brent
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