Comment on US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China

Amoxtli@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t even believe there’s hierarchy other than people are subservient.

  We never should have allowed the supreme court to tell us that corporations=people. It’s only inevitable that if corporations are people, and the government is supposed to be elected and controlled by the people, then corporations=government.

  The corporations are now the state that controls all of us. The government is not supposed to be run like a business where workers toiling under greedy shareholders are driven to an early grave in exchange for fewer and fewer bread crumbs.

  When the workers strike, the business collapses, and when the people finally refuse to keep the country running for the greedy shareholders who believe they’ve rightfully purchased it, so will the government.

  That’s exactly why they need this surveillance network in place to spy on everyone and crush dissent before it can occur.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If corporations are people, the representative can go to jail for the corpos crimes, right?

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  • Amoxtli@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, that is not true. Corporations are subservient to government and the state. People like Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, etc. have to kiss up to the Donald Trump, or whatever world leader just so they can do business. Democracy is a polite dictatorship and inherently corrupt, based on the desires of the majority. What people desire isn’t always right. Democracy is might make right.

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