Saturday, December 16, 2023

they actually thought that they were going to gain political points by taking on "big silicon".

it's rooted in this cynical, hyper-capitalist analysis of why people don't like corporate actors; it's not because some corporations, like exxon or monsanto, are legitimately sociopathic psychotics but just because they're wealthy. everybody hates rich people because they're rich. right?

well, no. neither facebook nor google are responsible for raping children in africa, destroying rainforests, patenting dna, dumping chemicals in lakes, etc. elon musk and steve jobs are more the psychopathic type that you might get some public sympathy around going after, but jobs is dead and musk has his hands full with the american regulators. the one that the state has spent the most time attacking is bill gates, who has spent more of his time as a philanthropist, at this point. i would actually endorse bill gates if he ran for president. google is maybe a little bit scary; facebook isn't scary at all. it's really the state that spies on you, not google. it's just not comparable.

people like facebook, and people like google. that was obvious, wasn't it?