Frankly, this is not as complicated in principle as some make it sound. To the extent an industry is accorded special govt dispensations and protections, more rigorous govt regulations are warranted and applied as a matter of course. For example, banks.
2. Google/YouTube, Facebook/Instagram and Twitter are fundamentally mass communications platforms with special legal protections to enable free flow of information. As such, it's wholly appropriate to mandate by law that they strictly comply with users' First Amendment rights.
3. Truth be told "they're just private companies" is a reductionist and ignorant formulation on the part of those who seem to know little about the nature of govt oversight of private enterprises. Industry-specific regulations are ubiquitous and the norm, not the exception.
4. Of course the specifics of any regulation must be debated rigorously. No regulation is better than bad regulation, so we must ensure any new regulation is good. But to assert that any new regulation of these platforms is somehow an affront to some pristine ideal is ridiculous.
5. Lobbyists, paid agents and spokespeople of Big Tech, often perched in high-falutin think-tanks might try to convince us that any regulation imposed on Big Tech will break some sacred bond of govt non-interference in private enterprise, but that would be deceptive.
6. Consumer protection has always been government's job and government intervening on behalf of the consumers to protect consumers' rights and welfare is a highly appropriate and legitimate role of government regulation.
As a matter of fact, that is its only purpose.
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1. Another Progressive Dark Money Outfit: North Fund
An obscure progressive nonprofit called the North Fund has scaled up operations during the last two years, allowing the group to quietly work in high-profile legislative fights in Washington and state capitals.
2. Do As I Say, Not As I Do
The North Fund's structure make it the latest progressive nonprofit to operate in ways that obscure key financial information from the public, even as it pushes for legislation to limit the role of so-called dark money in politics.
3. Founded in late 2018, the North Fund's budget shot up from $9.3 million in 2019 to nearly $50 million last year. It doled out nearly $18 million to other progressive groups — primarily other nonprofit advocacy groups, but with some going to outright political organizations.
Read the below thread and cry. All this resulted in GOP losing the presidency and the Senate. Why? Because:
a) Dems and MSM always define the terms of the debate.
b) GOP cannot highlight their own successes for shit. They spent all their time futilely talking down mail-in voting.
Watch GOP now stand by and let the Democrats destroy the economy with higher tax rates, while the kooks in the GOP drag the party down the rabbit hole of futile audits seeking vindication for the bruised ego of a fallen idol who was outwitted by Democrats via mail-in voting.
How hard is this for GOP to understand? Always, always focus on what is good for the people of these United States of America, and explain again and again what makes good ideas good. Ideas never explain themselves.
In 2017, Congress reduced the corporate tax rate to 21%, lowering the highest rate in the industrialized world and putting American businesses on a more level playing field with their global competitors.
Let's what ensued in 2018-2019.
2. In the next two years, after the tax cuts went into effect, the U.S. economy boomed, with increased capital investment, more jobs, and more income growth. Workers benefited tremendously, with record-breaking wage increases, lower unemployment rates, and falling poverty levels.
3. Let's review how the 2017 tax cuts benefited working people. In 2018-2019, real wages grew 4.9%, the fastest two-year growth rate in real wages in 20 years. Real median wages increased $4,400 in 2019, the largest one-year increase in U.S. history.
House Democrats and the Biden Administration are trying to kill a school choice program in DC for poor kids. 92% of the beneficiaries of the program are African American or Hispanic kids.
Obama also tried to kill this program while sending his own daughters to a private school.
The modest program (annual federal cost $17.5 million), that Teachers Unions are gunning to kill off, does a lot of good for poor kids in DC.
Biden admits, without explicitly saying it, that the Democratic lunacy about defunding the police has cost many lives and is now biting Democratic politicians in their behinds. 1/2
Funding The Police Is Not Enough
WSJ: Of course what’s needed is not just funding, but also political leadership that opposes lawlessness and does not seek to use the actions of a particular officer as a pretext to attack cops in general and advance ideological agendas. 2/2
Axios: Democrats, in private and public, are warning that rising crime — and the old and new progressive calls to defund the police — represent the single biggest threat to Democrats' electoral chances in 2022.