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Is this how the democratic process works now? Cloudflare threatens Google to pass a law?

• thisislife2 1y ago
  Do you have any more doubts who run the US and makes laws there?
  • handfuloflight 1y ago
    Hard to believe Cloudflare has more sway than Google.
    • deadbabe 1y ago
      Cloudflare is positioned to become a very powerful company. Well worth investing in.
    • procflora 1y ago
      Guess they've been pretty successful converting scummy Enterprise plan upsells to lobbyist retainers.
• pjc50 1y ago
  Tech regulation, or lack thereof, tends to be "biggest pile of money wins", but in this case there's already large anti-Google and anti-AI constituencies which CF may be able to mobilize. Especially in the EU.
• eviks 1y ago
  "Always has been"
• imilk 1y ago
  What has been democratic about how the internet has evolved over the last 2 decades? Because as far as I can see, the internet has undergone a massive centralization into the hands of a few players with practically no regulation. Especially Google, which can make decisions such as adding AI Overviews to search results leading to millions of websites seeing a ~25% drop in organic traffic in the last few months.
• bostik 1y ago
  Yes. It has been long known as "lawfare" In practice it means that we are pretty close to how ancient Greeks (in the city state of Athens) defined democracry: ~3% of the population decided - by voting - how the remaining 97% would live their lives.
• tedd4u 1y ago
  Very wealthy guy says the quiet part out loud. "We'll just buy a law"