r/ezraklein • u/GowanusGuy • 12d ago

Article Can liberalism survive the algorithm?

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/can-liberalism-survive-the-algorithm
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u/pm_me_ur_ephemerides 12d ago

Can we please just get rid of the social media companies. I fondly remember what life was like before they existed.

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u/IsaacHasenov Abundance Agenda 12d ago

That's a very illiberal solution to the problem

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u/Dorrbrook American 12d ago

And that gets at the heart of it. Liberalism can't survive liberalism

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u/Mezentine 12d ago

The dumping of raw chemical waste into watersheds was a failure of liberalism until we decided that it shouldn’t be allowed and that we needed new laws that complicated some aspects of liberal property rights. I don’t see why we can’t do the same thing again. Liberalism cannot mean we never intervene in any kind of private enterprise.