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>it risks becoming captured by the same interests as direct government censorship It already is. >At least 51 senior officials worked with Facebook, Microsoft

• ben_w 4y ago
  That's neither necessary nor sufficient for government capture. It's also the wrong direction, as those are going from Big Tech to the government.
  • JacobThreeThree 4y ago
    The capture and revolving door definitely goes both ways. Although my comment may not be sufficient to prove anything, there's a lot to explore with this topic. For instance, here's an example in the other direction: >more than 80 former Schumer staffers have gone on to subsequently work at the Big Tech firms. And Schumer's two daughters have also both worked directly for Big Tech—one for Amazon, and one for Facebook subsidiary Instagram. https://www.newsweek.com/why-chuck-schumer-trying-stop-antitrust-reform-opinion-1712773 https://www.newsweek.com/why-chuck-schumer-trying-stop-antit... This article is only about the one direction, but you can be sure the revolving door goes both ways in big-tech. Just look at all the ex-NATO officers currently wor
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