Making public officials promise that if any taxpayers...

Making public officials promise that if any taxpayers file official requests for information, Google will be the first to know, this is how our democracy is stolen. Every day, we sell our democracy and basic rights to Big Tech for convenience, “cheap” data storage, some always-on entertainment and a few “free” services. We sell ourselves and our environment so cheap.

Like 4 April at 9:21 | Open on mastodon.green

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The Divine Kestrel

We live here. My wife is intimately involved. It's even more sketchy and scary than @gerrymcgovern makes it sound in this thread.

4 April at 15:35 | Open on chaosfem.tw

lizzzzard

@DivineKestrel @gerrymcgovern anything you can talk about in public?

16 April at 5:24 | Open on social.tchncs.de

The Divine Kestrel

@lizzard @gerrymcgovern not a chance

16 April at 12:47 | Open on chaosfem.tw

Personne

@gerrymcgovern This is how fascism starts. And no, it's not an exaggeration; check the role of Krupps, BMW, Volkswagen, Bayer, and Commerzbank, for example, in supporting and having secret agreements with the German government during the 1930's and all the way to 1945. If private companies can operate in secret, evading public scrutiny on deals involving public property and consequences for the general public, then...you don't have a democracy anymore.

15 April at 18:12 | Open on ciberlandia.pt