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We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/technology

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With Google's recent monopoly status being a topic a discussion recently. This article from 2017 argues that we should nationalize these platforms in the age of platform capitalism. Ahead of its time, in fact the author predicted the downfall of Ello.

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[–] mlg 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

~~Using anti trust laws to ensure a free market~~

Giving ownership of the monopolies to the government... whose leaders are funded by said monopolies....

This is a dumb idea even for politicians.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How is democratizing dumb again?

[–] paf0 4 points 4 months ago

Government bureaucracy. Social networks should be as close to direct representation of the people as we can get, like the fediverse.

[–] rottingleaf -1 points 4 months ago

This is a dumb idea even for politicians.

Politicians are usually smart, just parasitic and destructive.

Giving ownership of the monopolies to the government… whose leaders are funded by said monopolies…

So this idea gets promoted by people from that loop you are describing here. What's dumb? It makes sense that they are doing this. It's in their interest. They are stronger than you and are forcing you into that bent over position. It'll only be dumb if you can prevent them from succeeding.