Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 4 weeks agoAre you
No.
spend your money however you want
Big fan of the Citizens United decision and money in politics, I take it?
Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 4 weeks agoAre you
No.
spend your money however you want
Big fan of the Citizens United decision and money in politics, I take it?
Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Ah, I’m still waking up, so I must have misunderstood.
I hadn’t considered political spending, but I didn’t get the impression we were talking about super PACs. Those are abhorrent, and undemocratic.
My stance was that if a person wants to buy something that’s stupid, ineffective, but gives them some small degree of hope and doesn’t harm others, then they should be able to. However, I’m also of the opinion that regulators need to remove those products from the market because they’re lying to people about their efficacy.
Ideally we’d be teaching people that snake oil doesn’t work. But the current political climate suggests that Big Snake Oil has captured the regulation, so I don’t see that happening either.