Comment by const_cast
1 month ago
> If I make a product and I don't specifically help you do certain things with it, is that authoritarian?
If were referring to products necessary to function in society, YES! Obviously yes, a big exclaiming yes, yes with no room for debate.
A car, but you can't drive anywhere but to work. Electricity, but you can't use it to listen to radio that criticizes our dear leader. A TV, but you can't use it to watch anything other than military parades.
A phone, but you can only use it to perform government approved actions on government approved software.
> A phone, but you can only use it to perform government approved actions on government approved software.
Are you not more or less arguing for this?
But you're right to point to a nasty problem, the solution to which is not obvious: "what do you do when society begins to rely on something created by a corporation, which is not accountable to a populace?"
Turning the corporation into a mini government may not have the effects you want