Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids and democracy

Re:Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids an... by handrous on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @02:11PM (#28763247)

> Yes; another way of looking at it is that the US government represents the "dictatorship of Capital".

When you consider that the driving question of the conflict behind the American War for Independence, and so essentially the founding idea of our state, was, "should aristocrats have most of the political power, or should rich businessmen have most of the political power?" this is what one would expect, really.

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Re:Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids an... by NoGravitas on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:11PM (#28764172)

I mean, the bourgeois revolutions were progressive in the context of their time.

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Re:Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids an... by handrous on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:52PM (#28764717)

True. And some of the US founders seem to have genuinely believed that having money was a nice, legible, reasonably accurate proxy for merit & general fitness, and so, that they were founding a meritocracy. It's not as if everyone was setting out to do something bad, or even that, in the context of the time, what they did was particularly bad.

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Re:Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids an... by coliveira on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:34PM (#28765240)

> seem to have genuinely believed that having money was a nice, legible

This is traditional right wing ideology, it has always been like this, only the excuses have changed.

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