Calls for regulating social media and online platforms as public utilities attract critics both on the left and the right. But would public utility regulation actually help freedom of speech on the Internet?
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Calls for regulating social media and online platforms as public utilities attract critics both on the left and the right. But would public utility regulation actually help freedom of speech on the Internet?
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Companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple do enjoy very dominant positions and they do abuse their power. Facebook and Twitter have been recently purging hundreds of alternative and independent media with millions of followers from their platforms. Google has been long extremely anti-competitive as it’s been artificially giving its own services higher ranks in the search results than their competition. And they are not wrong. We allowed these corporations to monitor our everyday activities, study our psychologies and develop tools and products that are most responsive to our emotional states.
But no matter how big they are, positions of none of these Internet giants are locked in. Their services are not tied to any geographical location. The Internet market is the whole globe. Anyone from anywhere in the world from almost any background can compete with them.
If you don’t like centralized corporations offering you centralized services, is it reasonable to expect from a centralized government to bring about any meaningful change? Maybe it's time to stop using these services and switch to alternatives.
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Sources
Calls for regulations and classifying social media as public utilities
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/newly-elected-republican-senator-could-be-googles-fiercest-critic/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/conservative-backlash-..
