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Wouldn't you want power to stay with elected officials who can be removed from office by the public rather than a private business that's primarily motivated by
by drtz 6y ago
Wouldn't you want power to stay with elected officials who can be removed from office by the public rather than a private business that's primarily motivated by profit and only answers to shareholders.
- ausbah 6y agocomments like above are reminders of how strong libertarianism is in tech circles, for better or worse
- cle 6y agoThat sounds good in theory but I think in practice, at least in the relatively broken representative system in the US, I'm not so sure. Consider that politicians often operate against the will of ~49% of their constituents. As long as they can maintain a majority, they don't care as much about the minority. I don't think a company, operating in a healthy non-monopolized marketplace, would be as willing to lose 49% of their customers.
- leetcrew 6y agoin theory, yes. in practice, I'd rather be a customer than a constituent.
- closeparen 6y agoDepends on which kind of accountability is more necessary. In the same way that people buy good cheap stuff that works well from Satan himself, they also vote for their ideological allies whether or not public services are within a thousand miles of functioning.
- Nasrudith 6y agoWhen it is over what is a means of accountability for them (it is the media and not the tech which draws the aggro)? Fuck no - they already forget they are servants and not masters.