Post #4385300
2026-08-04 11:20 UTC
Big Tech is the source of Americans' risk from authoritarian oppression. That means that Americans *cannot* rely on Big Tech to protect them from that authoritarianism.
And yet, after decades of regulatory forbearance and lax antitrust enforcement, Big Tech has forced nearly all its rivals out of business. Who can compete with companies that use Irish domicile to evade taxation and US domicile to evade privacy law?
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-08-04 11:20
There's a joke from eastern Canada I think of often in situations like this. Its punchline goes, "If you wanted to get there, I wouldn't start from here." But here we are. And speaking of Canada, while it has many problems, it is not (as of time of writing) the USA, but it *is* connected to the USA via the internet. 7/