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I think you're misreading Gurri; according to his reasoning, any measure is almost impossible (including regulation or anti-trust). From the post: >"Liberal de
by nickff 6y ago
I think you're misreading Gurri; according to his reasoning, any measure is almost impossible (including regulation or anti-trust). From the post:
>"Liberal democracy is still the only game in town. You can’t compete with it – but you can destroy it. You can smash it to bits and put nothing in its place. You can bring down an avenging chaos on a corrupt world. So when you ask whether today’s protests will ever lead to anything, the answer is probably not. They have little positive content."
If we use his paradigm to analyze the 'tech situation', the most likely outcome is furious protests, with no ability to cohere around any specific action.
- starkd 6y agoRight. It's very unclear just what "breaking up the tech companies" really means. There's a few interesting ideas, for sure, but structure change could very well make it worse, not better. They could start by not putting themselves in the position of being arbiters of information. As Gurri said, a little humility would go a long way.
- deeeeplearning 6y ago>If we use his paradigm to analyze the 'tech situation', the most likely outcome is furious protests, with no ability to cohere around any specific action. Who exactly is going to participate in "furious protests" against breaking up mega tech companies? lol
- nickff 6y ago>"Who exactly is going to participate in "furious protests" against breaking up mega tech companies? lol" ... The furious protests would be against the tech companies, but those protesters would not be able to cohere around a specific action. The closest analogy would be Occupy Wall St. There were large protests, and not many counter-protests (other than the tangentially related Tea Party ones, which were anti-government, not pro-Wall St.).
- m0zg 6y agoAnd if someone does, will anyone ever find out? They'll be "deplatformed" everywhere if they even _think_ of doing something coherent.
- Ygg2 6y agoIs it though? It seems China with its repressive apparatus put a clamp on Inteenet and free flow of information. Lot of his argument fall apart, if there is an alternative he isn't willing to entertain.
- nickff 6y agoNot sure who you're responding to; I replied to the grandparent on the basis of logic they purported to agree with. You seem to disagree with the article itself, and the paradigm described by its subject.
- Ygg2 6y agoWas replying to > any measure is almost impossible But yeah, my beef is with the Gurri. Not all of his description line up with reality.