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.
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.
> How exactly do you think those authoritarians are identifying whose freedoms are to be taken away?
Pretty easily. Do you look sort of like their enemy of the week?
That's all the excuse they need to grab you.
They don't actually give a shit about being accurate in that identification. Accuracy in repression isn't the goal. The goal is a visible, public show of force.
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.
> Corporations have more rights. Also immunity from any real consequences
That's just untrue.
They may have rights that you do not like that they have, but they do not have MORE rights than humans.
Similarly, companies face all sorts of penalties and restrictions that constrain them in particular ways, including very severe penalties. There might be some actions that you think ought to have more severe penalties than they get, but that doesn't make your statement that companies are immune to real consequences false.
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.
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.
> How exactly do you think those authoritarians are identifying whose freedoms are to be taken away?
Pretty easily. Do you look sort of like their enemy of the week?
That's all the excuse they need to grab you.
They don't actually give a shit about being accurate in that identification. Accuracy in repression isn't the goal. The goal is a visible, public show of force.
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.
> Corporations have more rights. Also immunity from any real consequences
That's just untrue.
They may have rights that you do not like that they have, but they do not have MORE rights than humans.
Similarly, companies face all sorts of penalties and restrictions that constrain them in particular ways, including very severe penalties. There might be some actions that you think ought to have more severe penalties than they get, but that doesn't make your statement that companies are immune to real consequences false.
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.