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> trillion dollar megacorporations and the federal government have become essentially one and the same. Aren't you getting carried away? How is Apple one with

• m0zg 5y ago
  Apple is only starting to play these games (with "CSAM", which is fundamentally designed to circumvent E2E encryption and will be inevitably expanded over time), but Google, Facebook and Amazon are fully onboard. Jen Psaki admitted a couple of months back that WH now tells Facebook what to take down on their site. Zuckerberg spent $300M of his money to elect Biden. How that's legal, I have no idea, but here we are with a senile president who can't remember the name of his Secretary of Defense. Google censors its search results to the point where I had to switch to Brave Search (the only independent search engine with its own index). Both Google and FB run one-sided "fact checks" which gaslight the public in favor of the current official narratives. Google, Facebook, and Twitter rather crudely and obviously manipulate their various rankings and trends for the same purpose, and have thousands of staff that do nothing all day but suppress dissent. And so on and so forth. US Big Tech is increasingly perceived today as a menace and the propaganda arm of the US government (or to be more exact, the non-replaceable part of it known as the "deep state"), and rightly so. Putin had no idea he could do any of such things, US corporations are teaching him many valuable lessons. Maybe not "one and the same" but give it time, that's the way it'll be.
  • DenisM 5y ago
    You have a convincing case, thanks for spelling it out. I'm not sure if I'm ready to be convinced yet, but there is something in it.