What irks me is how people on the one hand believe that you can't trust companies like Google or Facebook over moderate things, and say "we need federated, dece

What irks me is how people on the one hand believe that you can't trust companies like Google or Facebook over moderate things, and say "we need federated, decentralized alternatives," and yet when it comes to government (apart from their own pet issues) we magically trust powerful bodies with even less accountability with more important things. I wish there'd be some consistency.