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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 2 points 3 months ago

Google: plenty of other search engines exist right now, if this argument had been about gmail or Android, I could have understood it better
Facebook: yeah we can tell this was written before the rise of the fediverse because the solution there is completely obvious to anyone reading this...
Amazon: maybe because of its cloud services? In terms of e-commerce Amazon is literally just one online shop out of many, I at least do not buy from Amazon especially more often than other online shops.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Nationalize Google search circa 2008 (or whenever it actually was good pre-SEO), kill off everything else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, putting the government in charge of media is always a good idea and never results in any problems.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

Alternative Title: Here's why we need to give the government more reach into people's daily lives (and how it will make you wealthier because fuck logic)

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Someone needs to learn world history before making proposals like this.

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