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I hate it when someone seems to be trying to get me to have an opinion about something without really informing me in any way. This is true regardless of how I
by civilized 4y ago
I hate it when someone seems to be trying to get me to have an opinion about something without really informing me in any way.
This is true regardless of how I feel about "Big Tech Monopolies". And I don't really know how to feel. I don't work at one, I don't particularly like or dislike them. I vaguely dislike Mark Zuckerberg - there's all my bias out in the open.
Based on my bias, I should be sympathetic to this article. But I just find it annoying. You don't get my support by making vaguely hostile grunts while gesticulating at Facebook. You don't get it by reciting a laundry list of bad things your selected corporate targets have done or seemed to have done (what about, say, Exxon Mobil?).
Something about this article just screams bad faith and ulterior motives. I think it's the general hostile mood toward "Big Tech Monopolies" combined with a lack of any logic or motivation for that hostility. Like, 99% of the stuff they're complaining about has nothing to do with monopoly behavior. They're just throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks.
Who wants to bet that "American Economic Liberties Project" is just a front for some other type of vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity? One of those "Patriotic Americans For Truth And The Children" type organizations that's really just a coalition of a few obscenely rich entities that want a particular policy enacted to harm their enemies?
- zugi 4y ago> "American Economic Liberties Project" It's a name of which Orwell would be proud. The site hosts article after article advocating ending economic liberties.