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Elena Kagan the other day said the Supreme Court doesn't have "the 9 greatest experts on the internet" as a way of punting on Section 230.

I'm a software guy (semi-retired, now) and even I have trouble tracking it all.

So I'd like to see a blunt force approach to this: just chop all these companies to itty bitty little pieces, and give the useful bits (like the AI and Quantum computing research arms) to the public, and pay the researchers a ton of money to continue their work.

Eventually, like the Baby Bells, the itty bitties will just grow into new monsters, though, without some provision from stopping them.

None of this is realistic in today's political environment, of course. We live in Ayn Rand's world now.

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Charles Bastille
Charles Bastille

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Author of MagicLand & Psalm of Vampires. Join me on my Substack at https://www.ruminato.com/. All stories © 2020-24 by Charles Bastille

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