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This is why we need ows to make top alexia websits a utility!!

Imagine your electric provider cutting off your juice because CEO happen to be pro ozon layer guy and believes your fridge is too old and takes too much energy. Or your water company doesnt like you to wash your dog in your bathtub and cuts our water off suggesting t do that in your back yard. Or gas company does a survey and disagree that you cook lamb meat at home and shuts your gas, sggesting to switch to cooking poultry.

As billions of people visit these websites, they start to be super cruicial to quality of peoples lives! You can say “you gut cut off youtube go somewhere else”. There is nowhere to go! Same with other major sites.



Do you think ozonE was created by an act of Congress, like FOSTA? It's a business move to avoid legal liability.


I’m all for nationalisation when there is no innovation required and there is limited scope for competition (eg the state Uber’s taxi business is in and the examples you give - water is water and comes in a pipe, same for gas) but the top websites are nowhere near that stage, without competition and innovation they will never improve and go beyond what we currently have.




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