/liberty/ - Liberty

>>89193

Probably the biggest source of ridicule and mockery against the solvency, realism, and desirability of libertarianism >I'm seeing right now is coming from right-wing populists, the alt-right, and paleocons furious about right-wing views and figures getting deplatformed on social media.

I've noticed this as well, the ethnonationalists are ridiculously hostile to the one group even remotely friendly to their views (who are also the only ones with a sustainable way for them to achieve the homogeneous communities they want). I (((wonder))) who could be behind that?

>There does not appear to be any viable means of stopping this besides regulatory action.

Yes and no. In the short term that's correct (and to that end I support using voting and political action as a self-defense mechanism), but remember that the government's ability to regulate is the reason these companies are doing this in the first place—the reason it makes sense for them to alienate customers is that the government is bribing them with tax breaks, favorable regulations, and similar kickbacks. You can use punitive action to undo this, but that only delays the problem—governments, especially democracies, only get more leftist with time, and in a term or two those punitive measures will be coming back at us tenfold.

The long-term solution is to work around these barriers. Cryptocurrency is a massive boon here, and due to the decentralized nature you can't hope to block it. If you can't work with crypto, there's checks in the mail, money orders, and good old fashioned cash. It will be slow going, buy the more the movement grows the easier it becomes, as we start creating our own shadow market. And unlike expanding state power to use against our enemies, this can never come back to bite us in the ass.

>>89201

>>89200

The government isn't bribing big tech to censor its content. That isn't necessary. It's sufficient that these companies employ and are now dependent on the labor of left-thinking people who see fit to wield their power to promote their views and diminish opposing opinions and profits or obligations to shareholders be damned. Virtue signaling is just more important to them especially the 35 and under soycucks in the software division. The political response, in fact, hasn't been positive reinforcement with Democrats rewarding the bans by way of tax breaks, kickbacks, or regulatory capture and the Republicans offering some incentive for adopting a neutral point of view. Instead the Republicans have raised an empty bluster threatening the possibility of regulations they'll never follow through with while the Democrats have decided that Big Tech isn't censorious ENOUGH and is threatening them unless they go further and start collecting user IPs and other personal data to combat hate speech. It's all stick, no carrot with them.

I see no reason to believe that in a totally unregulated laissez-faire system things wouldn't be even more kiked up beyond repair. At least with the current system in place there can be talk of failure to honor the terms of service or uphold contracts on behalf of the platform providers. At least with certain industries like water and electricity being utilities you can't sentence somebody to marinate in their own filth over the long stretch of Winter because some beta faggot clique at the power and water companies decided you were a shitlord. Why should I think that leftist parasites wouldn't cause even worse havoc without regulations to keep them muzzled from time to time?

>>89221

>I see no reason to believe that in a totally unregulated laissez-faire system things wouldn't be even more kiked up beyond repair.

In said system, in said perfect world, they would be driven out, by force if necessary. The price of liberty is constant vigilance, and the tree of liberty must oft be watered with the blood of patriots and of tyrants.

The problem with building a libertarian country, a libertarian world, is that people are just fucking lazy. They want to be led, they want to be sheltered, they want bread and circus more than they want freedom. It's just human nature.