I'm all for it, let them attack each other and hopefully the backlash will elect a labor President to turn the final screws on knee capping big tech for the next 50 years.

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steve_adams_86 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

How do you knee cap big tech when other countries continue to push forward with it?

	▲	jayd16 a minute ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You don't need to cap the technological process. You can simply curb the power of corrupt individuals. If anything it would accelerate progress.
	▲	mindslight 34 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Why did we knee cap CIA/NSA/DOD from nominally operating on Americans when the Soviet Union continued to push forward with it? For what it's worth, our once-and-(hopefully)-future allies the European Union are already on board with reigning in the surveillance industry (leading by example, even). So your question is more like how can we constrain our domestic technological authoritarians when China continues to embrace theirs. And the straightforward answer is that it's not a "how" but rather a why - because it is in line with our values based around individual liberty.

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mindslight 44 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Democrats being only slightly less beholden to corporate interests and functioning as controlled opposition is exactly how we've gotten to the point we're at. I'd like to be optimistic and say that the backlash from the second Trump catastrophe will be a full 8 years of simmering authoritarianism rather than the current rolling boil, but that wasn't even true after 2020. I think media saturation has gotten so strong that people are just so much easier to lead around by the nose. For example look at how many continuing hardcore Trump supporters there still are, even in the face of appalling abject failures like his choosing to simply give away the Strait of Hormuz of Iran. They've got ever-shifting rationalizations streaming into their brains 24/7.