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The Tech Coup: A New Book Shows How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governance

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Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨otter@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/tech-coup-new-book-shows-how-unchecked-power-companies-destabilizing-governance

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  • TingoTenga@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not only governance suffers.

    Entertain me for a moment. Imagine a utopia in which you don’t need to distrust technology or guard yourself against the companies that control it. No data harvesting or sharing; your privacy, likes and preferences safe and your own. No schemes to come up with algorithms that enrage you and dominate your attention. Imagine that you could trust LLMs to be trained with only the best, curated sources and where their operation is completely open and transparent. Imagine how we would express ourselves through our tech and through social media. Technology would become deeply, deeply personal, benign, helpful and at the service of humankind… as it should be.

    What a crazy, crazy idea, right?

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We’re just living in 1984.

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      • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nah that’s was like 40 years ago now /s

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  • workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Third party campaigning is BS. All campaigning should be done by the candidate and all donations should go through their campaign. All donors should be public or the list should be available to the government for auditing. Companies aren’t people, they don’t have rights from the Constitution, they shouldn’t be allowed to campaign or contribute.

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    • pup_atlas@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As far as I’m aware, all donors are public, and have been for quite some time. Anyone can get exact numbers down to the dollar of each contributor a major politician took money from.

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      • bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is incorrect. Look into how SuperPACs get around the normal laws for donator transparency.

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      • Xerxos@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You, my friend, have to read up on super PACs

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  • mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m going wait for the follow up: showing how CEOs don’t prioritize human welfare over profits

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    • ogmios@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s unironically a very interesting topic. There was actually a landmark court case which insisted that a CEO must prioritize profits over human welfare.

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      • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That very page says it’s not a must.

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  • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    On one hand this is obvious, on the other hand when I mentioned to my friends that rising inequality leads to a rise in fascism they looked at me like I was an idiot, so the more info is out there the better.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Me: “DUUUUUHHHHHH!!!”

    Seriously. How many centuries has this been basic fucking common sense???!!!

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    • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      About 2, 2 and a half.

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  • bastionntb@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Where’s that Shockface emoji when I need it?!

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Shock face? You mean like when you get tazered by the police? As you do, in the modern day…

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  • nieceandtows@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What’s the point of this book? It’s nothing new, and would never change anything about the situation.

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    • SkyNTP@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This situation has come to be, through the ignorance and inaction of ordinary people. Your attitude is part of the problem.

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    • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Research and organized information on a topic, however obvious it might be, is an important step towards policy changes

      We also do see those changes from time to time, see the EU

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      • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And sourcing for it to be written elsewhere, such as citations in Wikipedia

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