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It's anti-corporate not anti-technological, not quite the same thing. After all the open and free Internet is the creation of government departments and governm
by huxley 11y ago
It's anti-corporate not anti-technological, not quite the same thing. After all the open and free Internet is the creation of government departments and government-funded universities.
I don't believe that anything as extreme as the parent suggests is necessary but I do believe that we should have enforceable transparency in the pharmaceuticals industry R&D costs and/or decoupling the drug trials system so that the trials have to be carried out by an independent third party.
- mason240 11y ago>After all the open and free Internet Yes, the dumb pipes of internet are. The applications, like this website, that actually make use of those dumb pipes are not.
- hueving 11y ago>It's anti-corporate not anti-technological, not quite the same thing. After all the open and free Internet is the creation of government departments and government-funded universities. The only thing that made it useful though was commercialization.
- robotresearcher 11y agoImagine all the for-profit stuff on the internet went away. The remainder would still be one of the most useful things ever created by humanity.