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Big social media companies, just like all other companies, desire regulations that solidify their market share and make it more difficult to create a new competitor. What generally happens in the US is a new regulation is drafted that theoretically achieves some good end, but whose true purpose is to make it more difficult for competitors to enter the space. That's why companies pay lobbyists.


You can't have regulatory capture if there's no regulation. They want regulatory capture so others can't join their party.


Yep, and the government enables and facilitates this malicious action for all statists that wonder what regulation could fix it.




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