And here I was thinking that flooding the zone with fascist bullshit, an office that's entirely above scrutiny, and their violent, unaccountable private army was the biggest threat to it.
The thing with government is the good ones always disappoint you and the bad ones never fail to be worse than you expect. Regardless of your feelings about the present administration you need to make sure the framework is there to protect against the next.
Funny, when I watch the news I see freedom being taken away by authoritarians, not people tracking who complains about window seats, or what pizza place you like best.
How exactly do you think those authoritarians are identifying whose freedoms are to be taken away? Or do you think all of the datamining and Palantir contracts are for lolz? Two sides of the same coin.
Why should corporations have the same rights and freedoms as human beings?
I think this is a far more important question than do you believe in right or left economic policy. idc, I want you to know, do you think a human’s rights, especially many humans together, outweigh that of non living entities like large tech companies.
So corporations can go to prison then? Or do you think some groups of people should get a free liability shield without any restrictions that come with it?
Mass automated data collection and automated analysis are probably the biggest threat to freedom in the present day.
And here I was thinking that flooding the zone with fascist bullshit, an office that's entirely above scrutiny, and their violent, unaccountable private army was the biggest threat to it.
The thing with government is the good ones always disappoint you and the bad ones never fail to be worse than you expect. Regardless of your feelings about the present administration you need to make sure the framework is there to protect against the next.
Funny, when I watch the news I see freedom being taken away by authoritarians, not people tracking who complains about window seats, or what pizza place you like best.
How exactly do you think those authoritarians are identifying whose freedoms are to be taken away? Or do you think all of the datamining and Palantir contracts are for lolz? Two sides of the same coin.
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Why should corporations have the same rights and freedoms as human beings?
I think this is a far more important question than do you believe in right or left economic policy. idc, I want you to know, do you think a human’s rights, especially many humans together, outweigh that of non living entities like large tech companies.
> Why should corporations have the same rights and freedoms as human beings?
They don’t.
Exactly. Corporations have more rights. Also immunity from any real consequences, but that's mostly an enforcement thing.
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Because corporations are just a group of people.
So corporations can go to prison then? Or do you think some groups of people should get a free liability shield without any restrictions that come with it?
If it's "people all the way down", why do companies pay so much less tax?
What a load of crap. Your liberty to swing your fist ends where my nose begins. What's "triggering" is when it hits my nose.