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> The author, however, fails to put forward any real criticism of government authorities who: - Have much greater scale - Are more opaque - Engage more aggressi
by jvanderbot 2y ago
> The author, however, fails to put forward any real criticism of government authorities who: - Have much greater scale - Are more opaque - Engage more aggressively to control and manage narratives - Are routinely shown to be subject to corporate captur
The author has chosen to write about, and I quote "How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governance"
This does not include, and is not obligated to include, any other factors that might destabilize governance.
As for the claims of virtue re: tech companies, I think they are overbroad and overpositive. There are several examples of tech companies violating any of the virtues you mention, and going head to head with government regulation to the determent of us all. This is not to say tech companies lack virtue, just that they may not all be the paramount morality that you seem to describe.
- fallingknife 2y agoYes, the author is not obligated to include that, but nor is the reader obligated to ignore obvious evidence of her hypocrisy and self interest. And when a creature surfaces from the morass of governemnt bureaucracy to complain about the threat of something much less ominous and powerful than itself, that hypocrisy is certainly something I will point out.
- jvanderbot 2y agoThis person is an academic at stanford, not a " creature surfacing from the morass of governemnt bureaucracy". I can see a little of the pot calling the kettle black, sure, but I think we disagree on degree enough to call it a disagreement of kind.
- fallingknife 2y agoBased on her resume, I have to stand by my statement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marietje_Schaake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marietje_Schaake