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I totally disagree. They look like the same thing today, but this is merely a consequence of the fact that everyone is under Facebook's thumb and Facebook works

I totally disagree. They look like the same thing today, but this is merely a consequence of the fact that everyone is under Facebook's thumb and Facebook works in the interest of corporations/big money who pay for their ads. If you shift the control to government, the dynamics change fundamentally. The power will once again start at the government (like it should) and not at the corporations. Money will still influence things, but not nearly as much as it does today. We need to take steps to decouple money from political power, decouple state from economics. Like guns, Facebook is not inherently evil. It mostly depends on who is holding it.

cloverich 6y ago
> decouple state from economics. Nationalizing businesses is the literal opposite of decoupling the state from economics isn't it?
- cryptica 6y ago
  Government intervention is unavoidable. It's just a matter of choosing the right kind of intervention. Facebook wouldn't exist without government support and expansionary monetary policy. We can go to an extreme and point out that to properly decouple state from economics, we'd have to abolish corporate personhood first. We would need to abolish 'limited liability' legal entities; the real purpose of these entities is to allow individuals to repudiate responsibility for their actions by deflecting blame towards these abstract legal entities. This doesn't make any sense aside from facilitating criminal activity. Whenever a corporation commits a crime and isn't shut down (which is 100% of the time), that is government interference of the worst kind.