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You’re responding to someone complaining about an overly authoritative government by saying that you don’t see the problem, it’s just that the local police forc
by jiggawatts 2y ago
You’re responding to someone complaining about an overly authoritative government by saying that you don’t see the problem, it’s just that the local police force tortures people with downright medieval techniques.
- dgellow 2y agoWhat
- olliej 2y agoWhile I obviously disagree with your prior comment, I feel "What" is a pretty much perfect comment here. +1. What.
- jiggawatts 2y agoIt seems like my analogy was too difficult to follow. The point is that the fundamental problem is a company in a monopoly position throwing their weight around and/or keeping their product stagnant “because they can”, which is also a function of power. This is the “authoritarian government”. The police part is referring to people thinking of specific IE6 technical issues “as the problem”, when it’s just a symptom of a larger problem. Microsoft treated web developers badly because they could. Google will abuse the whole world in the same way now that Chromium has achieved near total dominance.