• saigot@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    propaganda. If I becomes A political dissonant they can’t really stop be using the roads. Physical mail is a crown corp where I am, they are funded by the government but the government can’t effect their day to day function, same with our state funded news org. It would be pretty bad if a rogue politician could give out an order to restrict the viability or content of the mail, like what happened with the CDC in America during the pandemic. In order for the same to happen to a crown corp you’d have to have a parliamentary vote, which would take months and involve a lot of public oversight. You’d need the same institutional checks on a new social media service too, lest they randomly or silently start censoring things.

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      1 year ago

      The problem in the US is that the mail is kind of special, I just wish it wasn’t. If our government paid a company, it’d just be the same as us paying a company, and we’d still get ads, just Facebook or whoever would also get a huge government check. Not what I’d say a success or improvement.

      Of course, that just says more about how bad the government is really. I just think charity (donations) is a horrible and unreliable way to run any sort of “needed service” (for a given definition of needed).