Regulating Big Tech is like regulating a malignant tumour. You don’t regulate a malignant tumour. You cut it out, with enough of a surgical margin to ensure you get every last putrid bit to avoid regrowth.

(This is moot, of course, as we’re not even regulating Big Tech, we’re feeding it with subsidies, government contracts, and access to national healthcare and other sensitive data while the folks who should be regulating them eye their next lucrative gig beyond the revolving doors of their lobbies.)

#BigTech #capitalism #cancer #regulation #institutionalCorruption #lobbying #revolvingDoors #extinctionStageCapitalism

Regulating Big Tech is like regulating a malignant tumour. You don’t regulate a malignant tumour. You cut it out, with enough of a surgical margin to ensure you get every last putrid bit to avoid regrowth.

(This is moot, of course, as we’re not even regulating Big Tech, we’re feeding it with subsidies, government contracts, and access to national healthcare and other sensitive data while the folks who should be regulating them eye their next lucrative gig beyond the revolving doors of their lobbies.)

#BigTech #capitalism #cancer #regulation #institutionalCorruption #lobbying #revolvingDoors #extinctionStageCapitalism

How could this happen in a country that *checks notes* has made itself entirely beholden to US Big Tech and Big Pharma?

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41729865.html

#Ireland #institutionalCorruption #IrishDPC #dataProtection #GDPR #humanRights #BigTech

Having Microsoft organise a European Sovereign Tech Fund is like having Anheuser-Busch be your AA sponsor.

#EuropeanSovereignTechFund #microsoft#corporateCapture#openSource#freeSoftware#FOSS#institutionalCorruption#BigTech#EU

Having Microsoft organise a European Sovereign Tech Fund is like having Anheuser-Busch be your AA sponsor.

#EuropeanSovereignTechFund #microsoft#corporateCapture#openSource#freeSoftware#FOSS#institutionalCorruption#BigTech#EU

Meta an evil company? How can it be?! They’re partners, alongside Mastodon gGmbH, at the @swf (https://socialwebfoundation.org)

#institutionalCorruption #mastodon #fediverse#SocialWebFoundation #whitewashing #meta #facebook #threads#BigTechhttps://mastodon.au/@Linux/114821179079336678