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Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by wyager on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @05:16PM (#27440930)
I trust "political organizing" (codeword for astroturfing and cathedral control) less than I trust Google's profit interests.
Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by whimsicalism on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @05:50PM (#27441384)
I would rather be governed by a public actor with constraints than the arbitrary interference of a private actor.

This is the core republican (as in the political philosophy: Discourses on Livy, Philip Pettit, etc.) insight. If you want a stable society, you cannot leave space for arbitrary private individuals to become domineering forces on the rest of society. It's literally textbook how civilizations will fall, yet as a species we seem incapable of avoiding our own mistakes.

Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by wyager on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @06:12PM (#27441706)
Google is more effectively constrained than, say, the US federal government.
Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by whimsicalism on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @11:58AM (#27449412)
Google is effectively unconstrained, so hard to see how that could possibly be the case.

Sure, the government has more power, but it is also more constrained. There is no public control of Google, it is not a publicly sanctioned power.

Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by wyager on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:45PM (#27453003)
> Google is effectively unconstrained

Google is many orders of magnitude less likely to kill someone (legally or extralegally) or seize their assets than US government.

Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by leafmeal on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @05:52PM (#27441422)
I'm confused, do you not believe there is "political organizing" outside of the guise of astroturfing? And even when political organizing is just astroturfing, isn't the motivator just the same as Google's profit interest?

Whether you believe it or not, you have a lot more power to influence government (locally at least) than you do to affect what Google does. That was my only point.

Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by crocal on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @05:49PM (#27441370)
I guess you are ready for dictatorship then?
Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by wyager on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @06:11PM (#27441686)
Could you explain this take further? I’m tempted to write this off entirely, but I’m curious if you actually have some reason to associate corporatism with monarchy.
Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by adamcstephens on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @07:04PM (#27442228)
Corporatism in practice is an oligarchy. The people at the top decide the fate of everyone lower than them. In some companies it is effectively a monarchy, as a sole person is driving the decisions.