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Media regulation — who, which, when, how? Also Ransomware, BitClout and Roblox

My part of the world is full of people who, according to most of my liberal friends, “vote against their own interests”.

The suspension, imposed this past September without a public announcement, came as the government launched a review of all fetal tissue research funded by the federal government.

Instead of democratic capitalism, I propose that democratic socialism serve as the regulative ideal of our life together. Socialism, or something like it, is the settled conclusion of a society that values democracy. Capitalism seeks to grow the economy while managing inequality. Democratic socialism seeks to secure economic well-being while rearranging the power and productive relationships that create inequality.