kudos to shane harris for shedding light on our industry's modern story of Gleichschaltung (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung https://en.wikipedia.o

kudos to shane harris for shedding light on our industry's modern story of Gleichschaltung (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung) instead of representative democracies regulating, protecting, and/or supporting technology firms and citizens through systems governed by laws and regulations, we're entering an era of opaque and voluntary "partnerships" where all tech companies are equal, but some are more equal than others. this sort of coordination outside of legal and especially democratic processes has implications for everyone, and should concern us all. perhaps unsurprisingly, moxie portended these developments in 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxz7r4E2li8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxz7r4E2li8