More than enabling competition the strength of FOSS is that it enables cooperation.

One guy in his bedroom can’t build a huge enterprise level app, but a hundred people working on what they have expertise at? They absolutely can

Y’all already have the one constitutional right that’ll solve this

They have “thin margins” because the C suite charges about 50k per email sent. Fucking parasites.

And then they’d just sell it anyway because who the fuck is gonna do anything to them

What the fuck is an authoritarian government? The entire point of government is to wield authority.

Whose job would it be, corporations? Do you think the public was well served by anti-masker, anti-vax conspiracies being allowed to run rampant? Has the US benefitted from QAnon and Pizzagate being completely unopposed and sometimes boosted by social media?

Because there are some functional governments in the world that don’t allow US misinformation to spread without challenge.

They also suppress Falun Gong, are you telling me that’s in and of itself proof that their cultist shit is one hundred percent true? If so tell me so I can laugh my ass off

For starters, that the Uyghur genocide is yet another piece of atrocity propaganda from the US. We know what a genocide looks like and how it’s impossible to hide in the modern world, as Gaza showed.

Blurry satellite pictures of buildings and a German fascist swearing it for ten pages (financed by Raytheon and Lockheed-Martin) isn’t proof.