Big difference between regulating and banning. You're Impishly suggesting ... (any) government intervention as the slippery slope to authoritarianism. Regulation is a lot more democratic than the uncountable oligarchs' whims - and politics - which are getting even more prevailing. Unbridled capitalism is not going to fix humanity's problems. Market solutions won't address the problems social media creates.
The problem is using those above "good things" to get through wholesale "regulation" of much much more! and then trying anyone that doesn't support our "online safety bill" is supporting ****s when that suspect is a teeny tiny part of what they are trying to railroad through under that guise. but hey-ho. that is politics in a nutshell. Trying to sell your policies with as nice a disguise as possible.
You are "suggesting" that we are talking about "any" intervention when it is really more and more and more by the day. We will soon be referring to ourselves as we! Even in your second sentence. Where is the nuance? who said there should be no regulation? Just that there is also an opposite of too much regulation. The second sentence is meaningless because no-one is suggesting no regulation...just the spread and the increasing by the day "rules" that are going much further than the salespitch they use to get them through.
I’m not sure I agree reform are scrutinised that much. I mean Farage will get the coverage when he says ‘it was like an invasion’ etc with the Whitechapel march, but I guess that is their playbook anyway and the publicity they want!
Ah, so when you said ‘regulate everything,’ ....you meant it literally. I did assume some hyperbole Imps. We’ve gone from ‘communist 2025’ to ‘reasonable concerns about regulatory scope’ in a few posts! At the moment Musk and Zuckerberg et al make unilateral decisions affecting billions. You're worried about democratic regulation being a "slippery slope" to governmental authoritarianism, but you seem less concerned with oligarchic authoritarianism; if your concern is about creeping control, maybe start with the platforms already shaping/warping discourse in real time 24/7... without transparency, oversight, or consent! Do you think these platforms should be allowed to signal boost misinformation, nab data from minors, or crack down on political speech they don't "like"? Or is any attempt to address those issues already ‘too far’? But glad there's an agreement that 'some' regulation is necessary. But if so... then we’re not debating whether to regulate - we’re debating how to. That’s a different thrust to the comment you made at the start.
