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icantevenholdyesterday at 7:01 PM3 repliesview on HN

We should break these companies apart - they should not have that level of power.


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root_axisyesterday at 9:28 PM

A politically impossible outcome that isn't worth hanging our hopes on.

A more realistic approach is legislation that either forbids providers from suspending or otherwise limiting access to any government integrated system or simply forbidding these types of integrations altogether.

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throwaway13337yesterday at 7:10 PM

Centralization of power at all levels is bad. I therefore agree in spirit.

But who is the 'we' in that 'we'? If you defer to a politician, you simply centralize more power into a body of government constrained by only cultural norms and donor interests. Making a change requires the shifting of the overtone window of acceptability. At that point, it executes on it own regardless of mechanism.

The cultural norms are the prime mover.

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khrisstoday at 2:57 AM

You can thank Citizens United for that.