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It's a beautiful sign that these companies are becoming very powerful entities. We got used to existence of superpowers or dictatorships in the shape of a very
by jarek83 5y ago
It's a beautiful sign that these companies are becoming very powerful entities. We got used to existence of superpowers or dictatorships in the shape of a very strong or narrow-minded country governments. Now large companies prove to have similar influence to a likewise governments. We are used to watch out for monopolies, but those companies created something even more evil without being scrutinised - some kind of omnipoly, where they have power over many aspects of life by owning small-ish companies from different domains. They created a bubble where only their truth is true, and only their business is only allowed business.
What they just did with these slides? They had power to censor them. Who else has power to censor stuff? Superpowers and dictators. Similarities are starting show.
Are we already past that point where we could control these companies with law, policies and rules? They are so big and powerful, because we missed what they were doing. They were slowly and patiently building their power. Now they can tell governments what to do. Now there are governments in the world that seemingly have less resources than them to make them accountable.
Did they bought us all already? How much is left outside of their control or at least their knowledge?
I hope this is and will always be a scary fantasy. Otherwise we're going to experience some new and miserable developments in the near future.