At least the private company would act in their own interest to preserve profits
Such as sharing ALL of its customer data with the government in exchange for subsidies? Which effectively means having a government entity in control of the data but with zero oversight or control from the public?
I already said it wasn’t ideal. At least Trump had to do some shit first to fuck with tiktok. You think that wouldn’t have been immediate if tiktok was controlled by the government?
No, I don’t think so. Because - up until Trump - people in governments know that if they pull shit like this off, they risk the same shit being pulled against them, after they’re gone and the opposition takes over.
And Trump has proven that reasoning invalid. Things are never going back to the way they were before now that he’s shown just how much you can get away with. Until mechanisms are put in place to prevent such corruption and deal with his kind we can’t trust the government to handle anything.
Such as sharing ALL of its customer data with the government in exchange for subsidies? Which effectively means having a government entity in control of the data but with zero oversight or control from the public?
It’s not ideal but at least people aren’t getting their credit cancelled because they said something mean about Trump online.
Yeah? You mean it’d be independent of Trump’s interference? Like US TikTok?
I already said it wasn’t ideal. At least Trump had to do some shit first to fuck with tiktok. You think that wouldn’t have been immediate if tiktok was controlled by the government?
No, I don’t think so. Because - up until Trump - people in governments know that if they pull shit like this off, they risk the same shit being pulled against them, after they’re gone and the opposition takes over.
And Trump has proven that reasoning invalid. Things are never going back to the way they were before now that he’s shown just how much you can get away with. Until mechanisms are put in place to prevent such corruption and deal with his kind we can’t trust the government to handle anything.