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posted by janrinok on Sunday November 01 2015, @05:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the dream dept.

While the Net has certainly scored a point or two against the State, the State has scored a lot more points against the Net. If the State wants your domain name, it takes it. If that's independence, what does utter defeat and submission look like?

Worse: whatever state tyranny exists, it's obviously dwarfed by the private, free-market, corporate tyrannosaurs that stalk the cloud today. We can see this clearly by imagining all these thunder-lizards were actually part of the government. "Private" and "public" are just labels, after all.

Imagine a world in which LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Apple and the NSA were all in one big org chart. Is there anyone, of any political stripe, who doesn't find this outcome creepy? It's probably going to happen, in fact if not in form. While formal nationalization is out of fashion, regulation easily achieves the same result, while keeping the sacred words "private enterprise."

How do today's technologists win freedom from State control?


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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday November 01 2015, @11:59PM

    by frojack (1554) on Sunday November 01 2015, @11:59PM (#257313) Journal

    whatever state tyranny exists, it's obviously dwarfed by the private, free-market, corporate tyrannosaurs that stalk the cloud today. We can see this clearly by imagining

    Translation: Nothing about this post is true, but just "IMAGINE" this totally bogus scenario and ignore the facts, and you will see how prescient I am....

    We've seen a change in Big Business, especially Big Technology business. They have finally started to show that they understand where their money comes from. Be that their users, or the people they market user information to, they are starting to take positions against to government on may fronts.

    You or I would not be in a position to deny any government warrant. Google and Apple refuse hundreds of government requests and warrants every quarter. Yes they are forced to honor many, but a large percentage of them are simply rejected.

    They lobby against repressive legislation from the *cough* "progressive" party in power. They fight them in court to prevent US courts from issuing world wide warrants.

    Its clear the problem is government. Its clear the corporations are pushing back.

    But no corporation will ever get any benefit of the doubt here on SoylentNews. Soylentils hate corporations unconditionally. They want world wide systems and global connectivity from their computer. But god help anybody who forms a company capable of delivering that.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2015, @06:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 02 2015, @06:24AM (#257377)

    frojack, I just hope that corporations love you as much as you love them! Remember, they are people, too!