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Multinational tech companies are now more powerful than many smaller governments. They can, and do, impact who ends up in charge of many such governments, at th
by ocdtrekkie 6y ago
Multinational tech companies are now more powerful than many smaller governments. They can, and do, impact who ends up in charge of many such governments, at the end of the day.
10 years ago, no politician would've gotten stressed out over a statement from a tech company executive. Now many are worried about keeping close contact with them.
- Scoundreller 6y agoI wouldn’t be surprised if eFraud wasn’t used as a tactic when Bulgaria and Romania were admitted into the EU. No doubt lots of tech companies did a lot of lobbying for these two to get their act together.
- 1996 6y agoAnd it's a good thing. It helps keeping bad people on a good behavior.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoIf you trust politicians less than tech company executives, sure. But tech company executives are by and large pretty shady people.