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Re:Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will by ako on Monday November 20, 2017 @02:18PM (#15742362)
Given free hand, corporations can be just as dangerous as governments. I don't know why you would trust corporations more, since their only goal is to make money.
Re:Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will by mobilefriendly on Monday November 20, 2017 @02:21PM (#15742391)
>just as dangerous as governments

Corporations don't have nukes or concentration camps.

Re:Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will by bubinubn on Monday November 20, 2017 @02:43PM (#15742591)
The Black Hole of Calcutta is a widely known example of what can only be considered a corporate concentration camp of the (at the time privately owned) British East India Company...
Re:Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will by hyper_reality on Monday November 20, 2017 @05:09PM (#15743771)
That is a bad example indeed. The event of the Black Hole of Calcutta, where soldiers were rounded into a tiny dungeon which few survived, was perpetrated against British soldiers working for the East India Company by the governor of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah.
Re:Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will by CamTin on Monday November 20, 2017 @02:39PM (#15742541)
They could easily get them if we didn't prevent them from doing so.
Re:Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will by ako on Monday November 20, 2017 @02:27PM (#15742441)
Corporations have nuclear power plants that can be just as dangerous. Corporations can feed the masses miss-information, that may lead to destabilisation of a society by making them vote for the wrong person.
Re:Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will by ako on Thursday November 23, 2017 @01:28AM (#15763230)
Corporations build unsave factories that kill 1000s when collapsing (see Bangladesh). Corporations will add addictive substances to food and sigaretes you increase sales, in the process killing millions.
Re:Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will by SmirkingRevenge on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @01:20AM (#15746046)
I agree. The danger isn't simply "Big Government" or "Big <Whatever> Corp.". It's the concentration of power, whether by private or public entities. Private entities will abuse/buy/influence any power structure that happens to exist, to server their interests.
Re:Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will by cabaalis on Monday November 20, 2017 @02:24PM (#15742415)
At least with a corporation you understand their goal completely.
Re:Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will by nitrogen on Monday November 20, 2017 @02:44PM (#15742596)
Not really, unless you can listen to every meeting or conversation and read every document.