We Need to Nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon

Re:We Need to Nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon by mikojan on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @03:55AM (#15130430)

This is such a widespread idea I wonder where it comes from. At least your government (hopefully) is a somewhat democratic institution and is to that extend accountable and is providing standard procedures to make it more accountable if you believe it ought to be.

There's no such thing in Facebook or Google. Managers dictate policy and if you don't like it you can leave/stop using their service.

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Re:We Need to Nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon by Veratyr on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @12:24PM (#15133465)

My government is far more democratic than the US but I still wouldn't trust it with that kind of power.

Democracy is nice and all but the representative democracy most of the world is ruled by puts people who are good at getting elected in power rather than people who are good at running a country. Google/Facebook don't have that problem, their leaders are there on merit rather than their charisma, popularity or the lies they told.

Also, Google/Facebook are very much regulated by data protection authorities in the countries they operate in.

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