My assessment: post WW II, the cathedral has been there, and growing. Look at Iraq, or Libya or now Yemen. Or when Trump was being impeached, the Defense Authorization Act was passed by the House at the same time.
My take is it's not a case of interests being aligned *now.* They've always been. R vs D is just Coke v Pepsi. Marketing is the differentiation, with the goal being taking market share in both cases.
Substack and podcasts aren't currently controllable by the cathedral. They could so easily be - see AWS taking down the parler servers, as a start. But right now, 230 repeal doesn't sniff as the right path forward. Alternative channels with increasing reach does sniff right. Where dinky substacks like this one , Greenwalds and Taibbis continue to expand reach, and allow for heterdox narritives.
Think there will ever be appetite for changing/repealing Section 230?
What reason would the cathedral (the gov, tech and the IC) have to do this?
The cathedral can both sensor outliers as they see fit, yet not have to worry about that pesky 1A.
Trump had 2 years to move on 230, and was ineffective in wielding power (and not just on that).
I'm not a fan of Trump, but he exposed the cathedral as not being on the side of the people, for all of us who were looking to see.
Sadly agree. Ironically - the party in power is the regulation party - it's just that their interests are so aligned now.
My assessment: post WW II, the cathedral has been there, and growing. Look at Iraq, or Libya or now Yemen. Or when Trump was being impeached, the Defense Authorization Act was passed by the House at the same time.
My take is it's not a case of interests being aligned *now.* They've always been. R vs D is just Coke v Pepsi. Marketing is the differentiation, with the goal being taking market share in both cases.
Substack and podcasts aren't currently controllable by the cathedral. They could so easily be - see AWS taking down the parler servers, as a start. But right now, 230 repeal doesn't sniff as the right path forward. Alternative channels with increasing reach does sniff right. Where dinky substacks like this one , Greenwalds and Taibbis continue to expand reach, and allow for heterdox narritives.