Rep. Massie takes over key antitrust panel as GOP girds for Big Tech battle

[Madison320]

Did you read my post? Of course it's better to get rid of the regulations. Everybody here would rather get rid of the regulations. What if it's impossible to get rid of the regulations because our government sucks? You just keep trying that and nothing else? If it's impossible to get rid of the regulations, you can keep trying to get rid of them, but do you just do that and nothing else if you see that it's an impossible task?

So what's your solution?

 

[Madison320]

Massie knows the score - you don't set the fox to guard the henhouse:





Massie wants to go after the feds (who are the actual root and source of the problem) instead of the Big Tech companies (who are just the symptoms of the problem).

How are antitrust laws constitutional? They are clearly ex post facto law.

"Section 9: No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."

Can you imagine the outrage if they passed a version of antitrust on non-business owners?

The Personal Antitrust Law - You are guilty if we decide what you're doing is illegal.

But very few give a crap if laws made up after the fact are used against big business.

What I want to know is who would be dumb enough to own a business in the US?

 

[dannno]

So what's your solution?

Not sure what the best solution is, it's complicated.. but I'm not completely against the idea of using the government to limit it's own power. I'll probably go with whatever Massie decides.

 

[Madison320]

Not sure what the best solution is, it's complicated.. but I'm not completely against the idea of using the government to limit it's own power. I'll probably go with whatever Massie decides.

Isn't using the government to limit it's own power the same as removing existing crimes?

What I was specifically worried about was the idea of punishing "bad" companies with antitrust laws or removing their liability protection. I'm sure you remember that this was a popular idea back when Trump was president. That would be a thousand times worse than what we have now. The last thing we need is a government agency that determines whether a business is "censoring" and then punish ones that supposedly are. That would mean businesses could only exist by government permission.