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> It takes something the size of a corporation to fend off other corporations. Wouldn't it be great if we had one of those? An organisation powerful enough to

> It takes something the size of a corporation to fend off other corporations. Wouldn't it be great if we had one of those? An organisation powerful enough to boss companies around, making it so companies didn't have to race-to-the-bottom to compete with each other, and we'd get to tell it what to do? The logistics might be a bit hard, though. We'd have to have some kind of large-scale organised vote, probably on a schedule of some kind. That might take a lot of resources to arrange, so either a lot of people would have to volunteer to work on it, or it would have to acquire money through some mechanism… We could vote on that, too. Hmm. There are actually quite a lot of things we'd have to vote for, thinking about it. Including which things to vote for! Most people wouldn't have time for all that, leaving the people who would as the ones calling the shots. So we'd need some mechanism for people to delegate their vote to somebody else: a representative of some kind. And those representatives could form groups – councils, perhaps? – to discuss and vote on matters relevant to the people they represent. Once we've got all that set up, though, it should be easy enough to get uninstallable bloatware banned from computation devices. Right?

bobthepanda 3y ago
Coulda, shoulda, woulda. We can’t even get the deluge of spam effectively addressed by the government, and that is absolutely despised across the aisle. The same government that has enabled the concentration of wireless carriers is now expected to effectively prevent them from doing something?
- smoldesu 3y ago
  So far, resigning ourselves to failure has created capitalist horrors on all sides of the aisle. Everyone but Big Tech hates Big Tech. Utilizing our government to effectively curb abusive market practices is overall a good idea. It's how we scare predatory markets like cryptocurrency into submission. It's been harder to do with domestic inventions like the NYSE or the iPhone, but its increasingly relevant as the rest of the world cries foul. Whatever the case is, masturbating shareholders for infinite profit is not how you progress common interests.
Gigachad 3y ago
Because governments are completely incapable of regulating minute details like how tracking IDs on phones should work. The best part of the current system is your choice of phone isn't tied to how education is funded or what the immigration rate should be. You can make micro votes on every product you buy to get what suites you best.
- wizzwizz4 3y ago
  They are capable of empowering other bodies. The UK has the concept of "secondary legislation". > You can make micro votes on every product you buy to get what suites you best. Iff you are wealthy enough, and the market hasn't race-to-the-bottom'd that option away. No amount of "vote with you wallet" can get rid of leaded petrol, for example.

bobthepanda 3y ago

Coulda, shoulda, woulda. We can’t even get the deluge of spam effectively addressed by the government, and that is absolutely despised across the aisle. The same government that has enabled the concentration of wireless carriers is now expected to effectively prevent them from doing something?

smoldesu 3y ago
So far, resigning ourselves to failure has created capitalist horrors on all sides of the aisle. Everyone but Big Tech hates Big Tech. Utilizing our government to effectively curb abusive market practices is overall a good idea. It's how we scare predatory markets like cryptocurrency into submission. It's been harder to do with domestic inventions like the NYSE or the iPhone, but its increasingly relevant as the rest of the world cries foul. Whatever the case is, masturbating shareholders for infinite profit is not how you progress common interests.

Gigachad 3y ago

Because governments are completely incapable of regulating minute details like how tracking IDs on phones should work. The best part of the current system is your choice of phone isn't tied to how education is funded or what the immigration rate should be. You can make micro votes on every product you buy to get what suites you best.

wizzwizz4 3y ago
They are capable of empowering other bodies. The UK has the concept of "secondary legislation". > You can make micro votes on every product you buy to get what suites you best. Iff you are wealthy enough, and the market hasn't race-to-the-bottom'd that option away. No amount of "vote with you wallet" can get rid of leaded petrol, for example.