> FAANG, unrestricted, is far more dangerous and toxic to innovation than any government. That's a pretty high bar. I mean, Google/Facebook/etc have done some

> FAANG, unrestricted, is far more dangerous and toxic to innovation than any government. That's a pretty high bar. I mean, Google/Facebook/etc have done some skeezy stuff, but there have been a lot of REALLY bad governments. > Anarchists, in the "headless governance" meaning of the term. Distributed decision making without representatives. As someone who's pretty libertarian, I don't particularly mind those folks, and would say the biggest difference between them and I is their optimism. I'm pretty sure the resulting power vacuum would result in an opportunity for totalitarian fuckwits to take over.* * It should be noted, in the defense of anarchists, that they're pretty sure that my cynicism and paranoia has already resulted in totalitarian fuckwits taking over. The possibility that we're both right should also be considered.