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Why? I think the better approach is to take steps to stop the centralisation of power. Breaking up the mass media corporations, regulating ownership of media,
by nivenkos 5y ago
Why?
I think the better approach is to take steps to stop the centralisation of power. Breaking up the mass media corporations, regulating ownership of media, introducing proportional representation and more direct democracy, abolishing the domestic intelligence services, etc.
Trying to ban technology just because it _could_ be used for bad things seems as misguided as it is ineffective. The security agencies and authoritarian governments can just ignore those agreements anyway.
- genewitch 5y agoCapitalism, for lack of a better term, makes conglomerates and winners, in the sense of huge multinationals. Breaking a huge corporation up doesn't really solve anything. Where's Ma Bell? - sent from my post-Bell breakup cellular connection but still totally Bell. (Southwestern... Some DNS responses still show SWBC!)