re: #151 klys

Dudebros have a lot in common with libertarians, right? The free market wins all and whatnot?

So why is the argument going like this:

1. Google does something they don’t like to search results.
2. THE WORLD IS ENDING THE INTERNET IS RUINED IT SHOULD BE PRESENTING EVERYTHING NEUTRALLY (this is not fucking Wikipedia, really)
3. Google provides a public service and therefore should not be censoring their results!
4. ???

What response do they want: government regulation of Google? I though that libertarians think government is evil. Turning Google into a publicly run service? Isn’t that socialism?

I’m so confused.

I was having pretty much the same series of thoughts earlier: Free market! No government regulation! Information wants to be free! We want Google to be bound by the rules we dictate, and if they won’t do it voluntarily, then the… um… government*cough*or someone should intervene… and… um… force them to… uhhh…

When they talk about absolutes they sound stupid, like that woman in Delaware who ran for Congress, Christine Whatever-her-name-was saying she believed in telling the truth all the time, no matter what—so basically if the Nazis had come looking for Anne Frank and she knew her whereabouts, then she’d have to rat her out (unless God saved her).

O’Donnell—that was her name: Christine O’Donnell on human mice, lying to Nazis, and the women of Middle Earth When people talk about absolutes they sound stupid like her.