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Your suggestion sounds nice in principle, but how would you propose to create mandated democratic control of a corporate entity? The only mechanism which exist
by tristor 6y ago
Your suggestion sounds nice in principle, but how would you propose to create mandated democratic control of a corporate entity?
The only mechanism which exists I can think of would be to nationalize the corporate entity and have the folks controlling it be elected positions. That seems pretty extreme though as a response to a corporate entity becoming successful and growing enough that it influences the zeitgeist.
- valvar 6y agoThat does not sound extreme at all to me. It would not need to be controlled by people in elected positions - it could just be mandated that employees have to follow a specific charter and be as neutral as possible. A bit like many national news services, like the BBC. Considering how much influence Alphabet's products (especially Search) have gained over everyone's lives, I think something like that is much overdue and the only reasonable solution. That, or extreme regulation. At the very least, the search algorithm should be made fully public.