I may regret asking but what is your solution, then?

>Why would you want to give the government such power?

Because the government is the only body equipped to create and enforce consumer rights laws. Do you think we'd have refund policies if the government didn't regulate them?

>then they are surprised when a new government gets to power and uses this new regulation/capability against you.

Okay. How is the act of forbidding platforms from banning alternative payment processors going to backfire?

there is little other remedy to monopoly power?

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/media/1344546/dl?inline

Apple is already getting sued by the DOJ for their abusive business practices. They should be regulated.

I want them to use antitrust regulation against everyone, including me. That's what having values is like.

Markets without competition degenerate. Markets are also artificial and always rely on government enforcement to exist - Apple sues people who try to get around its market manipulation. You just prefer that governments help enforce trusts and destroy competition that those trusts denote as unfair.

Because this country needs a third funding, and I find your arguments incredibly moronic.

Political power is absolutely critical to help workers over the interests of the elites, deciding to actively cede this power is stupid because we do know who fills the vacuum and it's mostly evil people that want to continue to do evil things.

Please remember that every right we the people have was never given to us. It was forcibly taken by violence and force from those that abuse authority.

Advocacy is by far the worse way to enact real change. Organizing, literally expanding the base of political power, is the only way to change society.

People have forgotten how much power they hold and can yield, luckily there are those that do realize this and frankly I'm glad I spend my limited time on earth with those people than with your lot (those that complain but never do).