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Google's influence is quite concerning. Being a corporation, it should not be allowed to be a player in geopolitics. Break it up.
by littletimmy 11y ago
Google's influence is quite concerning. Being a corporation, it should not be allowed to be a player in geopolitics.
Break it up.
- sangnoir 11y ago> Being a corporation, it should not be allowed to be a player in geopolitics. Says who? Corporations have been waist deep in geopolitics since (at least) the beginning of the 20th century. see British Petroleum & the Iran coup, or Hearst and the American-Spanish war ("You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.") Here's a list of corporations that are also players in geopolitics - Fox Media (and anything owned by Rupert Murdock) - Oil companies (e.g. Haliburton) - Movie studios - Fracking companies - Numerous corporations behind TPP/TTIP
- frankchn 11y agoThe East India Company, with its own private armies fighting wars, is probably the most egregious example in history.
- eveningcoffee 11y ago> Says who? As I read it, parent commenter said this. It is an opinion. > Here's a list of corporations that are also players in geopolitics It does not follow that it should be like this.
- indians_pro 11y agoi think sangnoir wrote it in a morally outraged tone, and listed evidence to support littletimmy's post.
- littletimmy 11y agoMy claim was a moral one. An entity like a corporation exists to make profit for shareholders and is therefore an amoral, psychopathic entity. Being subject to a corporation is fuctionally no different than being subject to a dictator or a king; it is a morally repugnant condition.
- Sanddancer 11y agoCloudflare allows similar protections against speech certain parties dislike. Should it be broken up too?