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Facebook, Twitter, and Google. I think they are integral. Sure, you could replace them with different names, but the result is the same.

• UnpossibleJim 7y ago
  I think if we haven't had any serious conversation about making internet service a public utility, then it seems a bit of a farce to consider talking about companies like these as integral to our modern society. How proper internet service is still held hostage by the likes of Comcast and Verizon is beyond me, with little discussion given while everyone talks about the leverage of these three companies.
  • systematical 7y ago
    Do you consider the press part of society?
    • Nasrudith 7y ago
      That is a very different question - both dropping integral a very vast and the entire press vs particularly large publishers. The answer is yes but irrelevant as so are embezzlers, serial killers or would a hypothetical few who literally want to actively to destroy every trace of it. The question is vague enough that literal cancer could get both yes and no as answers logically (cases caused by society part of it vs existing independently in species without anything to remotely qualify as a society).