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We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why (www.theguardian.com)

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With Google's recent monopoly status being a topic a discussion recently. This article from 2017 argues that we should nationalize these platforms in the age of platform capitalism. Ahead of its time, in fact the author predicted the downfall of Ello.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I'd say computers with internet have done to regulations of mass media the same thing that early computers have done to encryption.

They allow platforms\businesses\whoever to make systems of enormous complexity, easily incompatible and with intentional gray zones for laws here and there, and to do that fast and in enormous quantities.

For example, with algorithmic recommendations and who's responsible.

What in the world before the Internet would be generally contained to real physical objects and procedures hard to change that fast, after it became wholly models defined by computer programs. When Facebook reads your messages, they don't open any physical envelope and they don't even do something at a telephone station.

There's an explosion of facts legal systems have not been designed to deal with. As we've all seen with the way they react to it.