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> the government prefers a handful of tech companies which they can control I think you have the order wrong there
by Convolutional 3y ago
> the government prefers a handful of tech companies which they can control
I think you have the order wrong there
- brvsft 3y agoNah, I think the one with a $6T annual budget, a money printer, and the monopoly on violence is the one in charge.
- _navierstokes 3y agoTech companies don't control the government, the government has much more power than them. Also, within the government there are groups, though they're a minority, that are against big tech. But yes, the State gets private information [0] and influences content moderation [1] from tech companies, and on the other side big tech spends millions each year lobbying the federal government [2]. [0] - https://www.cloudwards.net/prism-snowden-and-government-surveillance/ https://www.cloudwards.net/prism-snowden-and-government-surv... [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files ( nos. 6-10 ) [2] - https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-tech/2022/01/24/tech-spent-big-on-lobbying-last-year-00001144 https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-tech/2022/01/24...