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Shame this discussion got knocked off the front page as I think it's one of the most interesting on the board today. I just watched the video and the key line o
by nonrandomstring 3y ago
Shame this discussion got knocked off the front page as I think it's
one of the most interesting on the board today. I just watched the
video and the key line of the talk for me is this:
We must set the stage so that Big Tech must either play by the rules
of fair competition and be exposed to innovation or risk being;
"embroiled an unquantifiable guerilla warfare against engineers who
have the attackers advantage"
Hell, I'd found a dozen companies tomorrow, hell I'd raise an army and
work night and day if the objective was, by guile, craft and surprise,
to knock chunks out of these lumbering monsters with the law
protecting me instead of the enemy.
In other words, Big Tech simply enjoys too much protection of the
law. Remove those laws and allow us real hackers to tear them to
shreds.
Governments should not be creating new laws to fight Big Tech. It
should be repealing and dissolving existing laws that protect them,
and let nature do the rest.
- gxt 3y agoIf enterprises had their revenues capped at 100M$/year (and anything above that taxed at 100% to enforce it) there would be so much competition we wouldn't have time to think about this.
- brutusborn 3y agoI like the idea of corporate tax being a function of size (to reduce monopolies) but I suspect a policy like yours would simply result in lots of very ‘friendly’ companies with revenues of 999.99M/year.
- gxt 3y agoThat would be perfectly fine, in the end the power to do so would be less concentrated and less centralized as much as it is now.
- trinsic2 3y agoThats the guise the government operates with. They have to look like they are doing something. Passing new laws paints that picture. The real problem is removing those protections, the real situation is that people in that system are paid by these companies and the people that have the power will not act against their interests. Its not the public facing politicians that the problem, its the people that work out of the limelight that you have to contend with.