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You gotta think of the government like a gang, except in a different timeline, it would be our gang. A government has human values and morals. It is a social or

You gotta think of the government like a gang, except in a different timeline, it would be our gang. A government has human values and morals. It is a social organ. A corporation has only one value: increase profit; it has no morals. Government is a way for us to organize ourselves with the intention of improving life for all. In a corporation, the goal is profit. Any improvement in our standard of living is completely coincidental, and corporations will often take away these life improvements in an attempt to sell them back to us for no other reason than to increase profit. It's important to make sure the people in power have their priorities straight. The government is already set up to make the country a better place for all. Corporations cannot fulfill this purpose. And as for twitter, a lot of tech companies these days are vertically integrated monopolies. That means they have a diverse collection of proprietary services which lack inter-operability and stifle innovation and economic development. For example, how microsoft releases inferior versions of almost every kind of software imaginable, in an attempt to keep all people inside their ecosystem. This is what the original anti-trust suit against microsoft was about. Microsoft was found guilty of holding a monopoly multiple times. They only got away with it because they kept appealing until they found themselves in front of a weak judge. Does twitter have this kind of monopoly? I'm not sure. Amazon certainly could be broken up into a few different companies, as could microsoft, apple, google, easily.

scarface74 6y ago
> It's important to make sure the people in power have their priorities straight. The government is already set up to make the country a better place for all. Corporations cannot fulfill this purpose. In the history of the US, when have the people in power ever had their priorities straight? Before the Civil War? During segregation? The War on Crime? The War on Drugs? When interracial marriage (miscegenation) was illegal? When homosexuality was a crime (laws against “fornication”)? The only western country that still has the death penalty? Even in the context of “regulating tech” it’s clear that the current administration is only going against companies it doesn’t like for some reason.
- jacobwilliamroy 6y ago
  Most of the U.S. government was born to steal land and facilitate genocide. That's just a fact. It's where we come from as Americans. We are all beneficiaries of crimes against humanity. The government needs to change, no doubt about that. The government has public interfaces for change. We can change the government to make sure these interfaces are available to as many americans as possible. We could make them available to all, including our friends in Puerto Rico, just with a few signed pieces of paper. It's important for all of us to have goals and act in a way that is goal-oriented.
  - scarface74 6y ago
    That’s not the goal of an electoral majority of the country. Because of the 2 Senator per state structure of the Senate, 40%+ of the Senate represents 25% of the population. The senate confirms both judges with lifetime appointments and cabinet members. We also have seen twice in the last 20 years where the President won while losing the popular vote. Also because of the media that generally ignored the poor and minorities before everyone had a video camera in their pocket, thanks to Big Tech, and a platform to stream it live without gatekeepers, again thanks to Big Tech. Even the people who would care weren’t informed. If you were White, middle class and above why wouldn’t you believe that police are always fair and trust the word of police? On a personal note, seeing how myself and friends who are people of color, gay, etc have been treated by Big Tech and comparing that to the government - yeah I trust Big Tech a lot more.
    - jacobwilliamroy 6y ago
      Big tech made donald trump president and is current fueling white supremacist terrorism in america. I dont trust them at all.
      - stjohnswarts 6y ago
        Democrats had the same tools.
      - 6y ago

scarface74 6y ago

> It's important to make sure the people in power have their priorities straight. The government is already set up to make the country a better place for all. Corporations cannot fulfill this purpose. In the history of the US, when have the people in power ever had their priorities straight? Before the Civil War? During segregation? The War on Crime? The War on Drugs? When interracial marriage (miscegenation) was illegal? When homosexuality was a crime (laws against “fornication”)? The only western country that still has the death penalty? Even in the context of “regulating tech” it’s clear that the current administration is only going against companies it doesn’t like for some reason.

jacobwilliamroy 6y ago
Most of the U.S. government was born to steal land and facilitate genocide. That's just a fact. It's where we come from as Americans. We are all beneficiaries of crimes against humanity. The government needs to change, no doubt about that. The government has public interfaces for change. We can change the government to make sure these interfaces are available to as many americans as possible. We could make them available to all, including our friends in Puerto Rico, just with a few signed pieces of paper. It's important for all of us to have goals and act in a way that is goal-oriented.
- scarface74 6y ago
  That’s not the goal of an electoral majority of the country. Because of the 2 Senator per state structure of the Senate, 40%+ of the Senate represents 25% of the population. The senate confirms both judges with lifetime appointments and cabinet members. We also have seen twice in the last 20 years where the President won while losing the popular vote. Also because of the media that generally ignored the poor and minorities before everyone had a video camera in their pocket, thanks to Big Tech, and a platform to stream it live without gatekeepers, again thanks to Big Tech. Even the people who would care weren’t informed. If you were White, middle class and above why wouldn’t you believe that police are always fair and trust the word of police? On a personal note, seeing how myself and friends who are people of color, gay, etc have been treated by Big Tech and comparing that to the government - yeah I trust Big Tech a lot more.
  - jacobwilliamroy 6y ago
    Big tech made donald trump president and is current fueling white supremacist terrorism in america. I dont trust them at all.
    - stjohnswarts 6y ago
      Democrats had the same tools.
    - 6y ago