Are You Ready for the 'Inevitable' Clampdown on Tech and the Media? - shared from Reason.com

[jim bell]

https://reason.com/r/1wOM When Apple's CEO Tim Cook says "the free market is not working," bad things are coming.

[juan]

On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 00:04:25 +0000 (UTC)

Post by jim bell
https://reason.com/r/1wOM When Apple's CEO Tim Cook says "the free market is not working," bad things are coming.

Jim, do you mind explaining what that gillespie guy is talking about? When gillespie says the 'free market' - what is he talking about?

His 'article' is kinda confusing. Have big fascist corporations like facebook, apple, amazon and all the rest become big because of how amazing they are and how well they serve the 'free market' ? But wait, gillespie says

"tech industry and the larger economy (both of which are already pretty heavily regulated, if we're being honest)"

So...the fascist companies he loves so much don't really exist in a 'free market' and so are not a product of the 'free market' eh? Furthermore, the mafiosi who run those companies approve of regulation - and they are the ones who created the companies, so why is gillespie trying to teach them...anything?


Maybe there's something wrong with treason magazine and their understanding of the 'free market'?


What do you think Jim?

[Kurt Buff]

Post by jim bell
https://reason.com/r/1wOM When Apple's CEO Tim Cook says "the free market is not working," bad things are coming.

Anyone with half a brain and a thought to look has long ago figured
out that Tim Cook is a technocrat who wouldn't know a free market if
it jumped up and down on his bunions.

Kurt

[jim bell]

Post by jim bell
https://reason.com/r/1wOM When Apple's CEO Tim Cook says "the free market is not working," bad things are coming.
Anyone with half a brain and a thought to look has long ago figured

out that Tim Cook is a technocrat who wouldn't know a free market if
it jumped up and down on his bunions.


Which is the main reason I found this article so funny!   (And, I suppose, scary at the same time.)
                    Jim Bell

[juan]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 19:03:42 -0800

Post by Kurt Buff

Post by jim bell
https://reason.com/r/1wOM When Apple's CEO Tim Cook says "the free market is not working," bad things are coming.

Anyone with half a brain and a thought to look has long ago figured
out that Tim Cook is a technocrat who wouldn't know a free market if
it jumped up and down on his bunions.

the leader of the crapple mafia (CAPPL), sir cook, understands pretty well what a free market is BECAUSE his business bodel is wholly based on subverting the free market and preventing it from ever existing.

That's just as true regarding bezos, thiel and all the rest of sillicon valley mafiosi and NSA agents.


As to the bag of shit gillespie, author of that little propaganda piece, he is even more anti free market than cook. The only 'funny' thing about the article is seeing how treason magazine is more corporatist than its corporatist masters. There are for instance articles from scumbag gillespie whining because facebook doesn't censor 'enough' people.

Funnily enough the people who don't have the slightest clue about the nature of a real free market is the vast majority of self described 'libertarians'.

And the complete cluelessness of these 'libertarians' is perfectly illustrasted by the ayn randroid slogan

"America's Persecuted Minority: Big Business"

Post by Kurt Buff
Kurt

So Kurt, what do you think about America's Big Business and Reason Magazine?

Same question for Jim Bell.