Today, we open with a light item—a viral TikTok video—and engage in some cultural commentary. Next, we break down a new executive order that aims at promoting free-market competition by creating a central body staffed with career bureaucrats. Speaking of free markets, the Biden administration is flagging Facebook posts for misinformation and encouraging platforms to unilaterally ban bad actors—calling into question just how much lawmakers care about antitrust violations. After critiquing both the left and the right’s attempts to compromise Section 230, we explain how civilians can create and migrate to a truly distributed web ecosystem—with or without Section 230. Finally, we break down the furor over billionaire space travel. Amanda makes a formal apology to the nation. 

We Discuss:

Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: 

• https://www.tiktok.com/@halliegaltok/video/6984276454884248837?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1 

Free Markets, Federal [Mis]management: 

• https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/07/09/executive-order-on-promoting-competition-in-the-american-economy/

Cronyism vs. Capitalism: 

• Amanda on Cronyism vs. Capitalism: https://www.goodmorningliberty.us/post/when-is-a-private-company-no-longer-a-private-company-cronyism-vs-capitalism?postId=dd8c2f81-2725-496a-88f2-3575157b3237 

Billionaires in Space; Rockets of Unusual Shape: