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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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In light of the recent troubles is it time to break up the tech giants.
To big and far to powerful for many freedom lovers, in my opinion they've shown they can't be trusted and it's time to break them up into lots of smaller companies. |
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By *mmabluTV/TS
over a year ago
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"In light of the recent troubles is it time to break up the tech giants.
To big and far to powerful for many freedom lovers, in my opinion they've shown they can't be trusted and it's time to break them up into lots of smaller companies."
How they are more likely to break up nations and take over they have the power these days |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"In light of the recent troubles is it time to break up the tech giants.
To big and far to powerful for many freedom lovers, in my opinion they've shown they can't be trusted and it's time to break them up into lots of smaller companies.How they are more likely to break up nations and take over they have the power these days"
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There's antitrust laws where there head officed.
It's quietly being talked about in Washington and has google a little spooked!. |
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By *oo hotCouple
over a year ago
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"In light of the recent troubles is it time to break up the tech giants.
To big and far to powerful for many freedom lovers, in my opinion they've shown they can't be trusted and it's time to break them up into lots of smaller companies."
You might want to give us all a bit more detail here...
Which tech giants are you talking about?
What recent troubles are you talking about?
If they are privately owned, opt in, entities how can “freedom lovers” complain if they are not obligated to use them and under what international law can said companies be “broken up”? |
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Breaking them will just slow them down. The Americans broke up Bell a few decades ago and now they have behemoths like AT&T and Comcast.
Tech moves at a far faster rate than the old telecom industry. |
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It's reasonable to assume that in a world where many major catastrophes could affect billions of people and where it's evident that corporate self-restraint isn't the norm, that there should be intelligent planning and restraints put in place at a global level. This doesn't necessarily have to mean that large tech companies have to be split up, similarly to what happened and gave rise to the baby bells/AT&T in the USA some years ago.
Global finite resources, dangerous pollution and global heating with displacement of millions of people, shortages of water and food, coupled with how tech can potentially reduce the income levels of substantial numbers of people, due to AI/robotics etc, are the potential foundations of major global catastrophes. Such changes could potentially leave a very small number of people with high levels of wealth, whilst billions struggle - but with alternative solutions that could be realised instead.
Without external constraint, those who hold the tech keys to wealth, become the new overlords of the world. They are able to amass whatever data they wish upon all citizens, which makes them even wealthier, influence public opinion in similar but more extreme ways to Cambridge Analytica, in essence deciding your fate and the politics of the day.
There are probably several ways that restaint could be enabled, alongside how everyones' wealth and living standards could be sustained and improved upon, that wouldn't simply need all the tech giants being broken up. It's feasible that such giants would pre-empt their fractionation, via the creation of even more arms-length 'sister' corporations, possibly in different legislative regions, so plans would need to prevent an army of smaller corporations from acting in unity, with equal or worse outcomes for the world.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"In light of the recent troubles is it time to break up the tech giants.
To big and far to powerful for many freedom lovers, in my opinion they've shown they can't be trusted and it's time to break them up into lots of smaller companies.
You might want to give us all a bit more detail here...
Which tech giants are you talking about?
What recent troubles are you talking about?
If they are privately owned, opt in, entities how can “freedom lovers” complain if they are not obligated to use them and under what international law can said companies be “broken up”?"
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There taking about the big three primally Facebook, alphabet, Twitter.
These companies are given special powers that grant them immunity from prosecution as they are deemed to be public square broadcasters and not responsible for content, given that there meant to be open to all views and opinions, all ideas and political persuasions and yet we see censorship and blacklisting, we see high up execs talking about "preventing another trump situation" those looking for collusion in electing politicans have been looking east instead of West?, we see illegal gathering of personal information, illegal use of software, spying, the shutting down of political discourse they don't like.
It would appear there offering you a choice between a brave New world and 1984 while they slowly take over every aspect of your life in the modern world.
They simply erase you from the matrix.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Breaking them will just slow them down. The Americans broke up Bell a few decades ago and now they have behemoths like AT&T and Comcast.
Tech moves at a far faster rate than the old telecom industry. "
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Alphabet have acquired on average 52 companies a week for the last ten years.
Small companies move fast, the technological gains are never made by the giants, they just buy up and take what they want and shut down what they don't want. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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I'll leave a quote from one of my heros, too much power in the hands of the few.
Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment,the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution and not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply "give the public what it wants" but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion. |
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