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Comparing a company to a colonial empire is a bit silly unless you're talking about the East India Company. I don't believe Facebook has its own warships yet.
by sevenless 10y ago
Comparing a company to a colonial empire is a bit silly unless you're talking about the East India Company. I don't believe Facebook has its own warships yet.
- vegabook 10y agowho needs warships when you can destroy a country economically electronic payment-systems sanctions? I think the East India Company comparison is entirely reasonable, if not right now, soon. And it won't need anything so vulgar as actual physical force, but its tools of war will be just as effective.
- ucaetano 10y agoEnglish East India Company, Austrian East India Company, Danish East India Company, Dutch East India Company, French East India Company, Portuguese East India Company, Swedish East India Company, Hudson Bay Company, United Fruit Company, Danish West India Company, Dutch West India Company, French West India Company, Swedish West India Company, Royal African Company, etc. I'm not judging if they were good or bad, but there were (and still are) far too many.