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Are the anti-monopoly efforts by congress real or are they just being used as a cudgel to force tech companies to censor content?

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This is a wonderfully eloquent piece. Thank you for doing what you do.

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"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." - Louis Brandeis

"Move fast and break things." - Mark Zuckerberg

Re. Frances Haugen though, Brandeis also said this:

"Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears."

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Michael Lewis wrote about the very same theme:

"It’s never entirely clear on any given day what causes what in the stock market, but it was pretty obvious that on October 31, Meredith Whitney caused the market in financial stocks to crash. By the end of the trading day, a woman whom basically no one had ever heard of had shaved $369 billion off the value of financial firms in the market.

Now, obviously, Meredith Whitney didn’t sink Wall Street. She just expressed most clearly and loudly a view that was, in retrospect, far more seditious to the financial order than, say, Eliot Spitzer’s campaign against Wall Street corruption. ***If mere scandal could have destroyed the big Wall Street investment banks, they’d have vanished long ago. This woman wasn’t saying that Wall Street bankers were corrupt. She was saying they were stupid.*** These people whose job it was to allocate capital apparently didn’t even know how to manage their own."

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