> We are literally discussing that this act could easily be stopped by legislation. Doesn’t that imply they have less power than the electorate?

Not when they have full time people dedicated to lobbying the legislation. That's the issue on why things move so slow or halt when it comes to really voting on such policy.

Given that this runs tangential with whistleblowing and free speech, this is exactly where I want a government to draw a line.

That's the big issue of the post truth era. I imagine the number of people "using these platforms despite what we know" is minuscule. Most will never hear of this, and many who do know have probably left long before this for the other dozens of crimes against humanity Meta's performed.

Of the rest of this list. Youtube Premium is the only thing I'm still subscribed too. I actively unsubbed from Prime and am setting up to unsub from Google One.

I haven't paid close attention to the effects, because I don't thumbs down too many videos. But it did feel like I generally don't get that channel as much after thumbing down a video from my recommended feed.

Nebula as a premium service seems to be the best in terms of paying creators and keeping non-perverse incentives. But Nebula is for very specific kinds of content.

And yes, thars the issue. I pretty much unsubscribed from Disney+, HBO, and Netflix becsuse I can't just have multiple 15 dollar subscriptions add up.

As of now, YouTube, Rider, and Google One are my only subs. And I should really shuffle around space so I can unsub from One.

But at least you still have that ability compared to most platforms.

Are you implying that criticizing your government is a "witch hunt"?

>really anything that I care about - which is mainly “how much money do I get in exchange for my labor”

That's fair. Though I didn't choose my domain for the reasons you work. So I cared more about managers who felt like they were empathetic and invested their time to help me succeed. Not whoever can have me climb the corporate ladder the fastest.

Funny to say that in a story like this.

I simply don't trust a chart with a botched legend to begin with.

>Legend: Each '' represents approximately 4,000 employees.

That's what put me off and once again reinforces that blindly copying AI does in fact bring harm.

- yes the Civil War could have literally been our Berlin Wall. And maybe we needed that. But the actions of the post war, for better or worse, did unite us enough to not have that happen.

- The gilded age should have also been the fall of the US. It arguably is the setup to the stock crash. But decades of collective opposition lead to a leader who could guide us out of thar crash with some of the most progressive policy we've seen.

The crimes of the 70's was manufactured a lot in part of the US government. And whole Vietnam was bad, the common American was never in danger over these issues past yet another recession. It wasn't quite the endgame we've seen other times.

Meanwhile, now: you can argue that this empire was falling for 45 years. With a few ups, but overall trending down. If the bronze age can fall in 100 years, I see no reason the hyper accelerated digital age can't fall in 30-40.

We can still be saved by yet another huge progressive push, but will we this time? It'll depend so much on the next 2 years.

A morbid part of me wonders if hisnl "advice" literally killed off enough of his voters to swing the election.

Meanwhile, I'm not sure if we've truly seen an endgame socialist policy. Captialism seems to turn into imperialism and break that up before seeing the endgame there.