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[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They dont want to just run it.

they want to control and dictate it.

Google needs a massive regulatory hammer to come down on it and smash it into dozens, if not hundreds, of tiny individual companies

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That needs to happen more with Alphabet than Google but either would be great.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You and everyone on the entire planet knew what i meant.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's no reason that people should assume you meant Alphabet rather than Google? Seeing as you used "Google" rather than "Alphabet" as they're two different words. English is fun!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I bet you sit at home, dumbfounded and confused, as to why people never invite you to parties/trips.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'll cry into my filled weekend social life and life partner of over a decade, you pegged me just so accurately. Super relevant username btw.

Dude, you specified a company and I pointed out their parent company instead. I agreed with your original statement just indicated a better target. In the future, in social situations, a person who isn't filled with angst would normally say something like "Oh you're right, good call" or "Yeah, that would work too." Something that adds to and continues the conversation instead of being a weird, defensive neckbeard about it. Have a good rest of your life, bud.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but we all knew what he meant and didn't feel like being a pedantic asshole about it.

So he has that going, anyway.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Clearly not from the up votes on my original comment. But I'm glad you could masturbate your ego there for a bit. Hope the dopamine helped.

Lemmy is so much worse than reddit for this antisocial shit, it's ridiculous. Only a handful of you seem to know how to continue a conversation without choosing to shoot snide remarks and condescension, then wonder why active users are dropping month over month.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Your original comment was fine. It was the second one that got you into trouble.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Both. Both is good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

The internet is incredibly important to the modern society. Letting private companies only motivated by filling the pockets of the ~~old farts~~ shareholders run it is a bad idea. It's time we consider Internet infrastructure like any other type of infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I find it wild we don't nationalize the banks we bail out with trillions of our tax dollars. Each and every one of us should be getting dividends on their profits, we should own half of the banks by now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I agree with you. But have you seen how California has handed over the power grid to private companies?