Ben Shapiro

And so the idea that you cut short the innovation for redistributionist purposes is just economic nonsense.

And again, it doesn't matter who says it.

If a proposition is wrong, it remains wrong, regardless of the mouth from which it springs.

The Pope says...

Today, he says, when it comes to decisions regarding economic flows and digital platforms, as well as the governance of data and algorithms, we cannot allow a handful of actors to dictate these processes on their own.

Instead, we must build forms of cooperation that respect the various levels of the global community and make them jointly responsible for the common good.

Who would be doing this?

Who?

Are we supposed to take into account the desires of Zimbabwe?

How about China?

How about Iran?

How about Pakistan?

Should we take into account their deep thoughts on AI?

In the digital age, a just social order guarantees everyone equal access to opportunities, protects the youngest and weakest members of society, combats hate and misinformation, and subjects the use of data and technology to public oversight so that the guiding principle is not solely profit, but the dignity of every person and the common good of all people.

See, this is where you start to smuggle in a bunch of stuff that ends up actually being immoral.

Very often, when people want a centralized tyranny, they never propose a centralized tyranny in the name of injustice.

They always do it in the name

of the common good of all people.

That's always how it starts, always.

I would rather have diffuse mechanisms in competition with one another than centralized government control under the auspices of any organization.