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Which big US tech company is partly owned by the United States government with such powerful decision making capabilities?

by pell 4y ago

aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
On paper?!
- pell 4y ago
  Yes.
  - aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
    Good luck.
    - pell 4y ago
      It’s not difficult to name shady, unlawful, unjust - you name it - behavior by the US government. It’s not difficult because to find any of it I can simply go to Google and in less than a second I’ll have a list of it all. Try that on Yandex or VKontakte. Good luck. If you have no evidence or even circumstantial hints your comment is nothing more than a conspiracy theory.
OrvalWintermute 4y ago
> Which big US tech company is partly owned by the United States government with such powerful decision making capabilities? The golden share is not the equivalence of direct ownership, it is rather a control mechanism. Just like how much of our BigTech is controlled to an extent by the US govt, and how previously, congress was able to trade on insider information. Now, when we are talking control/ownership, are you asking for directly, or indirectly, or controlled? Most obvious of course is https://www.iqt.org/portfolio/ https://www.iqt.org/portfolio/ A list of companies that got acquired can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel This is to say nothing of other huge amount of federal funds, or the soft control exerted through politically connected billionaires which is actually one of the preferred mechanisms in both Russia, and the US. Us with our bigtech billionaires, in Russia with their Oligarchs. On a daily basis, section 230 reminder threats are being used against BigTech to remind them that they still work for the Establishment political parties. Here is a singular example, of which there are hundreds or more. https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2020/10/does-section-230-s-sweeping-immunity-enable-big-tech-bad-behavior https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2020/10/does-section-230-s-s...

Which big US tech company is partly owned by the United States government with such powerful decision making capabilities?

by pell 4y ago

Which big US tech company is partly owned by the United States government with such powerful decision making capabilities?

aaaaaaaaata 4y ago

On paper?!

pell 4y ago
Yes.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
  Good luck.
  - pell 4y ago
    It’s not difficult to name shady, unlawful, unjust - you name it - behavior by the US government. It’s not difficult because to find any of it I can simply go to Google and in less than a second I’ll have a list of it all. Try that on Yandex or VKontakte. Good luck. If you have no evidence or even circumstantial hints your comment is nothing more than a conspiracy theory.

OrvalWintermute 4y ago

> Which big US tech company is partly owned by the United States government with such powerful decision making capabilities? The golden share is not the equivalence of direct ownership, it is rather a control mechanism. Just like how much of our BigTech is controlled to an extent by the US govt, and how previously, congress was able to trade on insider information. Now, when we are talking control/ownership, are you asking for directly, or indirectly, or controlled? Most obvious of course is https://www.iqt.org/portfolio/ https://www.iqt.org/portfolio/ A list of companies that got acquired can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel This is to say nothing of other huge amount of federal funds, or the soft control exerted through politically connected billionaires which is actually one of the preferred mechanisms in both Russia, and the US. Us with our bigtech billionaires, in Russia with their Oligarchs. On a daily basis, section 230 reminder threats are being used against BigTech to remind them that they still work for the Establishment political parties. Here is a singular example, of which there are hundreds or more. https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2020/10/does-section-230-s-sweeping-immunity-enable-big-tech-bad-behavior https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2020/10/does-section-230-s-s...