As Cory Doctorow notes, "Big Tech has proved that its only principles are not paying taxes, invading your privacy, and not being broken up by antitrust enforcers." So they've effectively joined the Trump regime, and any nation that dares challenge them risks a a great deal. https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/03/broken-arrows/
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Preparing for a post-Trump internet: You'd better hope it's also a post-American internet.
Because trump and the billionair oligarchs plus servile Military, National Guard and a million Petty crooks are in the gravy train.
They commit brazen crimes in office or on duty that could land them in prison for the rest of their lives, and therefore can't afford to lose power, ever:
@dangillmor They also believe in causing as much death and suffering as possible, up to and including global thermonuclear war, for the sake of "Effective Altruism"/Roko's Basilisk.
@dangillmor
THIS!! One thousand times THIS!! I have pretty dumped all the "Big Tech" products. But we need municipal broadband and cell service to complete the circle so we don't have our internet shut off. Right?
What’s very clear is voting Republicans out of office is not enough. And a platform of healthcare and The many measures needed to serve is not enough.
Silicon Valley large corporations in general, but Silicon Valley in particular must be seized broken up and shut down.
They are ideologically dedicated to destroying people us, and any say In our lives. It’s a war wage on us only missing bullets for the moment mostly
@dangillmor "One thing we don't need to worry about is Trump ordering OpenAI and Anthropic to switch off all of Europe's chatbots – sure, he could do that, but if he did, nothing important would break:)"
How jealous those LLM companies must be of every load-bearing technology.
