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   d (deprecated_ii@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 08:54:13 JST d
   one of the absolute most retarded ideas in modernity is the notion that private corporations should be allowed to fuck up the things they "own" at the expense of the public
   
   corporations receive significant privileges and government support and the fundamental argument for that is that their endeavors are a public good, that they're doing things that wouldn't be feasible otherwise, without the protections and funding. e.g., building a railroad or an electric grid or whatever
   
   once a corporation starts behaving badly, those protections and that support should be stripped and the individuals involved should be thrown in an alligator pit on live TV. pour encourager les autres
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 08:54:11 JST Sick Sun

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     • Rusty Crab
     @RustyCrab @deprecated_ii it's a protection racket, silicon valley was giving basically no money to politicians until microsoft got antitrusted, then they started lobbying like crazy to make sure that never happened again
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 08:54:12 JST Rusty Crab

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     @deprecated_ii you're actually seeing that now in the form of antitrust. The problem is the government has a very different definition of "behaving badly" because they share no common relation to the people they rule over
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 08:57:56 JST Rusty Crab

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     • Sick Sun
     @sun @deprecated_ii thr government looked the other way while google vacuumed up power left and right for a decade. They were still innovating and increasing US power so they just ignored it. Now google is the designated shitting street of silicon valley and their latest invention is niggageorgewashington. That's why they're finally getting broken up.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 08:58:26 JST Sick Sun

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     • Rusty Crab
     @RustyCrab @deprecated_ii the antitrust was ONLY for their ad network as far as I know, not the "man in the middle all of american society" part, they are still totally okay with that I think
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 09:00:50 JST Sick Sun

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     • Sick Sun
     @RustyCrab @deprecated_ii I'm sorry Search not even ads lol
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 09:07:31 JST Sick Sun

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     • Gaddafi
     @RustyCrab @carthage @deprecated_ii Amazon has entire datacenters exclusively for US government use, they're called GovCloud. In 2014 IBM and Amazon bid for government contracts, IBM insanely underquoted and CIA said "we're not using your shit at any price" and it triggered a GAO investigation that years later was found in favor of Amazon.
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     Gaddafi (carthage@annihilation.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 09:07:32 JST Gaddafi

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     • Sick Sun
     @RustyCrab @deprecated_ii @sun You would think amazon has more pull on the market than google tbh
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 09:07:32 JST Rusty Crab

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     • Gaddafi
     @carthage @deprecated_ii @sun my understanding is that amazon is still insanely useful for the military so the facts of the case are irrelevant