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

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by drd@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] And009@reddthat.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How is democratizing dumb again?

[–] paf0@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Government bureaucracy. Social networks should be as close to direct representation of the people as we can get, like the fediverse.