Thought exercise: So who serves who? Do the figureheads of nation states serve their corporate oligarchs OR do the corporations still serve the politicians/people of the nations with their product or service? Who wields the power? The corruption and the concentration of power is staggering. Who is really calling the shots? And in the case of America…how many of these corporations are really just "private" fronts to allow the government to do what it wants with plausible deniability. Is a company that enjoys lucrative contracts with the government still a private entity? When a school accepts public funding it has to tow the line ( single sex schools forced to go coed) Why is it different for companies? OR is it the other way around- is the public face of government really the front for the huge corporations? Is the idea that we have any representation at all really just a farce? Is the private corruption an even bigger problem than that in the government because it is less restrained? Companies like Google and Amazon seem to have become so big and so powerful that they are operating on the level of nation states with next to no transparency and they are in bed with powerful governments also. Would we allow another country to control our DOD cloud? Is the military the only puzzle piece the corporations don't have? (YET) I admit to not having thought very far through the vast frontier of corporate oligarchy… but I do muse over it and it's a beast that needs addressing. Corporate titles and foundations seem to be almost like the hereditary land based titles of yore. We need to deal with corporations that are big enough to be a national security threat and big enough to affect the rights of large populations ie speech/privacy
Can international law ever supersede the Constitution? I hope not. I think antitrust should seriously be considered…this much power concentrated to the few is dangerous whether it is styled as government or as private- it's the same path to tyranny. Technocracy rising.
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Online ID - sounds like a nightmare. Also sounds like the Chinese social credit score…and a national ID. I have to say I have no trust at all that alongside the corruption and lust for power that this will be used for Good purposes. Is it me? I am loyal to the Constitution and to my country- not to Goog or to Bezos. Just Nope. How many hacks/ breeches of trust involving data have we seen recently with Big Tech? How can they safeguard that the data won't be altered/used by a disgruntled insider that wants to ruin someone on a grudge or over politics? This has my hackles up. Will watch with interest. ut it seems to me that if they are going to have this much power, these companies need to be restrained like governments to serve the interests of the end users with representation and transparency not just a top down TOS agreement and 4am updates and endless fees that are more like taxes even though it is a service we might one day be required to buy.
The PTB changed the packaging…but it's the same shit. No fealty. Freedom.