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One of the problems with this is that the author: 1. Sees things from an excessively American point of view. 2. Seems mostly to care about whether tech compani

One of the problems with this is that the author: 1. Sees things from an excessively American point of view. 2. Seems mostly to care about whether tech companies back his side in American politics or the other. This is a global problem, and a lot of the problem is the concentration of power. The problem is not which side companies in a particular industry pick, but that which side they pick matters too much. The tribalism of picking sides is part of the problem. Disparate issues get labelled "left" or "right" and everyone agrees with all the opinions on their side.

cowpig 2y ago
> Seems mostly to care about whether tech companies back his side in American politics or the other. Well, to be fair, the movement that seems to have largely infiltrated the Republican party in the US is (openly) against democracy and prefers a concentration of power and subjugation of "others". And it's a two-party first-past-the-post voting system so a vote for any alternative between the two ruling parties is effectively a vote for whichever party is least like them. So it's against your own interest not to take part in the tribalism in the US.
- spencerflem 2y ago
  Yeah totally- Don't confuse hate for the republicans as support for the democrats
johnnyanmac 2y ago
It's an American POV because a lot of EU and Asia have safeguards against this stuff. America's been deregulating such things for decades now. It is indeed an American POV that universal healthcare seems to come and go with the president, something unthinkable for other first world countries. >The tribalism of picking sides is part of the problem. Following up on the other response: if you got or know a coalition that can push more ranked choice voting in some states, I'm all ears. That's the only real way to affect this as any reasonable level.
ruszki 2y ago
These existed before the internet. In the 90s and early 2000s, there was definitely a feeling that these will be solved by easily available information. It was extremely naive to think this, but everybody who knew what’s the internet thought this regardless of country. Today, there are topics about which getting information is as difficult as ever, because there are only ads or misinformation what you can find easily. Buying a new vacuum cleaner shouldn’t take hours or even days. And I shouldn’t need to learn all the technical details of them. But I need to because there is no trusted source of information, because almost everything is ads. I trust filtering to reddit less and less. Figuring out what really happens in Ukraine and Gaza (or just in universities in America) shouldn’t be a week long research, because there is misinformation all the time, seriously everywhere, in every single newspaper, blog, website. So not even the base idea is completely true, its supposed to be effect is even less true. The general populace has clearly less power than 20 years ago as you mentioned.

cowpig 2y ago

> Seems mostly to care about whether tech companies back his side in American politics or the other. Well, to be fair, the movement that seems to have largely infiltrated the Republican party in the US is (openly) against democracy and prefers a concentration of power and subjugation of "others". And it's a two-party first-past-the-post voting system so a vote for any alternative between the two ruling parties is effectively a vote for whichever party is least like them. So it's against your own interest not to take part in the tribalism in the US.

spencerflem 2y ago
Yeah totally- Don't confuse hate for the republicans as support for the democrats

johnnyanmac 2y ago

It's an American POV because a lot of EU and Asia have safeguards against this stuff. America's been deregulating such things for decades now. It is indeed an American POV that universal healthcare seems to come and go with the president, something unthinkable for other first world countries. >The tribalism of picking sides is part of the problem. Following up on the other response: if you got or know a coalition that can push more ranked choice voting in some states, I'm all ears. That's the only real way to affect this as any reasonable level.

ruszki 2y ago

These existed before the internet. In the 90s and early 2000s, there was definitely a feeling that these will be solved by easily available information. It was extremely naive to think this, but everybody who knew what’s the internet thought this regardless of country. Today, there are topics about which getting information is as difficult as ever, because there are only ads or misinformation what you can find easily. Buying a new vacuum cleaner shouldn’t take hours or even days. And I shouldn’t need to learn all the technical details of them. But I need to because there is no trusted source of information, because almost everything is ads. I trust filtering to reddit less and less. Figuring out what really happens in Ukraine and Gaza (or just in universities in America) shouldn’t be a week long research, because there is misinformation all the time, seriously everywhere, in every single newspaper, blog, website. So not even the base idea is completely true, its supposed to be effect is even less true. The general populace has clearly less power than 20 years ago as you mentioned.