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A government rule that says anyone with market power can't have censorship power isn't so much picking winners and losers as preventing someone else from doing it.

And it isn't preventing useful filtering, because someone without market power can do it.

There are maybe better ways to fix this. Like get rid of DMCA 1201 and the other laws that cause tech markets to consolidate like this to begin with. But given the choice between this or nothing, this.




Yeah that's the excuse government always gives. It was never true before, and it's not true now.


It's not true if you can actually do the better thing. But I don't see a "repeal DMCA 1201" bill going up for a vote this year.

So I'll take this and try to get that next year.




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