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Re:Have the Tech Giants Grown Too Powerful? by dang on Friday July 13, 2018 @01:19AM (#17520686)
> the hundred million people butchered in the 20th century by governments with guns is better than

Would you please stop posting like this to HN? Ideological flamewar tropes are not welcome here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Have the Tech Giants Grown Too Powerful? by s2g on Thursday July 12, 2018 @03:39PM (#17517941)
Yes, far more dangerous.

Control information and you control the populace. You don't need to use guns because the people don't know whats going on, you can prevent people from organizing, you can use misinformation and propaganda to control people. Control of information and control of speech is a massive amount of power. I'd rather google had access to a few nukes, honestly.