Comment on Are We Transitioning From Capitalism to Silicon Serfdom?

redfox@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Fudoshin@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • Directly: They lobby governments.
  • Indirectly: monopolies and other paper corporate behaviour like data selling and privacy erosion.

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  • redfox@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    more powerful than the government

    That’s probably a matter of perception on my part. In the US, I don’t see them that way. They still get called to the carpet by Congress and fined. Sometimes I think the fines are low enough they consider it just a cost of doing business.

    I don’t think small nations have that same feeling, especially when dealing with a US based company, or a national customer base that’s large enough to make them feel it if they were lost.

    data selling and privacy

    Well, at least the EU is fighting on those fronts. Props to them.

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    • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They get yelled at by old men in procedures that typically make their interrogators look foolish at best, then are fined what amounts to a minor rounding error and change nothing. Because for the time being, congress and the donors that get congress elected benefit from the absurd profits being collected.

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      • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Right? All the fuckers yelling at them are 70-90 years old and don’t even understand the shit they are yelling at him about. They certainly understand how their portfolio is doing, though.

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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Read or listen to Yanis explaining the concept he described as techno feudalism.

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