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> Board will include one U.S. government–appointed director. In other words, one's data will now be under the scrutiny of amoral radicals who have decided to t
by vehemenz 1y ago
> Board will include one U.S. government–appointed director.
In other words, one's data will now be under the scrutiny of amoral radicals who have decided to target people for political speech.
- delfinom 1y agoWe are slowly becoming Communist China. Won't be long until all companies will be required to have a party office.
- jimmydoe 1y agomaybe, but i think what I see here is trump is not interested to beat china, just see what he did with s korea and india. the only thing may indicate that trump is competing with china is how hard he's trying to please putin, but apparently he needs to work harder to get into the organ harvesting club.
- athorax 1y agoThis is such a funny take. In China corporations operate at the behest of the government. In the US the government operates at the behest of corporations.
- oblio 1y agoThat's changing, though. They <are> working together, but the balance is tilting towards the US government and worse, towards individuals controlling it.
- pcthrowaway 1y agoThe U.S. is moving to state capitalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism) which is common in fascist regimes (think Nazi Germany or fascist Italy)
- the_gipsy 1y agoWhich should also be deemed very inefficient, if I understand correctly. Germany's growth was unsustainable. A realistic example would be Spain, where 36 years of real-world fascism left the country well behind comparable countries.
- immibis 1y agoAll that means is an interchange of definitions: Chinese calls "corporations" what US calls "government" and vice versa. But not fundamental different reality. On planet Floorp, carpets (organic bipedal tetrapods) use people (machines that suck air) to clean vacuums (woolen floor lining). How quaint - no, not really, that's exactly the same as on Earth but with different words. There are good arguments to be made that the USA's government is corporations, and the entity we call "the US government" doesn't actually meet the definition of being the government of the US.
- athorax 1y agoIts a nice thought, but this is not at all reflective of reality
- VectorLock 1y agoUS bought a big stake in Intel; the US is quickly attempting to replicate China's system of State Capitalism. If you can't beat em, join em, I guess.
- motbus3 1y agoThat's not true. You won't have state care or education
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- platevoltage 1y agoKey word here is "asking".
- jameslk 1y agoYes the government asking for content to be censored is censorship. They don’t always ask either, e.g. Julian Assange/Wikileaks
- amanaplanacanal 1y agoWeren't they just reporting to Twitter when they saw posts breaker twitters existing policies?
- jameslk 1y agoIs it not problematic that the government is bringing up specific things they’d like censored?
- immibis 1y agoAs long as it stays to the level of "Hey, doesn't this violate your rules?" I think the government has the same right to press the report button, or even to write an email equivalent to pressing report a bunch of times, as anyone else does. I'm not aware that a Democrat government arrested anyone for not complying with these emails.
- jameslk 1y agoAre you suggesting it's okay for the government to push for censoring specific content only when it also happens to break the rules of a site? How is the flag button equivalent to the White House writing emails to Twitter and Meta? It seems the latter would have a lot more priority than my personal measly attempts at pressing the flag button on something I didn't like