Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out

Re:Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out by antisthenes on Thursday July 21, 2022 @01:41PM (#32182378)

Sounds like Embrace, extend, and extinguish strategy in relation to a social movement.

Corporations embraced identity politics, extended it to absurdity (peak wokeness), and are now extinguishing any hope of meaningful change, placating the plebes with meaningless virtue signaling and short-lived rage-machines like BLM.

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Re:Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out by no-dr-onboard on Thursday July 21, 2022 @02:49PM (#32183248)

There is an old documentary out there that basically sums this strategy as:

"Your movement dies in Target. Yes, Target. Corporate America will defang your movement, put it on a t-shirt, acid wash it and sell it to mindless, edgy teenagers who want to feel like they're doing something with their lives "by supporting" it."

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Re:Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out by nemo44x on Thursday July 21, 2022 @09:58PM (#32187582)

That’s essentially the premise of the novel “Gravity’s Rainbow”. Anything and everything will be co-opted for corporate profit. The only way to truly be free is to fly under the radar.

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Re:Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out by autoexec on Thursday July 21, 2022 @03:14PM (#32183579)

What's the documentary?

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