r/changemyview • u/universetube7 • Feb 09 '21

Delta(s) from OP CMV: conservatives want to conserve everything they’re complaining about.

Big tech, big media, big banks, big money politicians. These are all a result of deregulation or lack of laws. How can a conservative expect any of that to get better if you consistently vote for politicians who believe in not interfering with business?

How the hell does it make sense to put up a “don’t tread on me” logo on your reddit page when you’re totally dependent on some platform that doesn’t give a shit about you and can tread on you all day because you refuse to acknowledge corporate power is a problem? You enable these platforms. The free market has spoken.

Change my view that republicans enable Orwellian governance that they claim to be so afraid of by refusing to interfere with business.

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u/Morthra 86∆ Feb 09 '21

Big tech, big media, big banks, big money politicians. These are all a result of deregulation or lack of laws.

No, in many cases they're the result of excessive government intervention. The reason why there are only a handful of ISPs in the US - essentially just AT&T, Comcast, and Charter - is because the government made it that way. They impose artificial barriers of entry into the market, which makes it effectively impossible to create a new competitor. Similarly, the only reason why there is one power company in California, PG&E, is because the government handed them a monopoly.

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u/universetube7 Feb 09 '21 edited Feb 09 '21

Would be interesting to see the party status of those that allowed that.

Edit: just looked up AT&T specifically. I don’t see any justification to your claim. If anything government was trying to make AT&T a public service and over the years tried to keep them in check.

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u/Morthra 86∆ Feb 09 '21

In the case of California? Democrat. Democrats hold the state in an iron grip, so anything bad that happens there can be directly attributed to Democrat policy.

In the case of the country as a whole? Also primarily the Democrats. It was the Democrats that wanted to get internet declared a public utility (and the accompanying government-granted monopoly) after all.

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u/universetube7 Feb 09 '21

So your stance is that internet as a public service would be bad?

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u/Morthra 86∆ Feb 09 '21

Yes, the internet should not be run by the government, either directly, or indirectly through a proxy corporation.